Child health matters (Book).

Improving Child and Maternal Health: Why Adolescent Girl Programming Matters

Book Reviews Child Psychiatry

This book is part of the Sage Publications series on developmental clinical psychology and psychiatry. According to the series editor, the author is to present the latest theory and research on specific types of dysfunction, diagnostic and treatment approaches, and special problem areas that affect adjustment. Authors are asked to bridge potential theory, research, and clinical practice and to ...

Maternal Employment and Child Obesity: When Child Care Matters

A substantial body of literature suggests that maternal employment stimulates child obesity. This study re-examines the existing relations and explores the role of alternative care on health status of working women’s children using Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC). Categorizing child care as relative, non-family, and kindergarten care, I investigate how each type of child care generates di...

Book Review: What Matters? Putting Common Sense to Work

In What Matters? John Flach and Fred Voorhorst offer an approach to understanding everyday cognition that stands in contrast to the standard approach that has generated interest in logical puzzles, bias, and formal approaches to rationality. More on that question mark in the title later, but the words presage a concern with what matters to us as cognitive agents as we engage purposefully with o...

Every child matters: change for children.

Statutory guidance to the UK Border Agency on making arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children It is the duty of Government and of society as a whole to keep children safe. Public agencies have a particular responsibility to do this, both within their own area of business and in the way in which they work together. Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 places a duty on specifi...