Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children

This volume provides readers around the globe with a focused and comprehensive examination of how to prevent and respond to child maltreatment using evidence-informed public health approaches and programs that meet the needs of vulnerable children, and struggling families and communities.
It outlines the system failures of contemporary forensically-driven child protection practice. Detailed guidance is provided about how to re-think earlier intervention strategies, and establish stronger and more effective programs and services that prevent maltreatment at the population level. Service user and stakeholder perspectives, particularly from marginalized groups including Indigenous peoples, highlight how public health approaches can better support families and keep children safe. Case studies from different countries grapple with the fraught nature of large system change and the various strategies needed to effect multi-level reforms. Presenting the reader with an array of innovative services used in different institutional and community context, this volume confronts the complex challenges found in implementing successful prevention programs that are aligned with diverse cultural and political environments and community expectations.

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Springer Nature

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Bob Lonne, Deb Scott, Daryl Higgins, Todd I. Herrenkohl

ISBN:

978-3-03-005857-9

Specialty:

• Community Health & Disease Prevention
• Health Administration
• Health Policy
• Health Systems & Services
• Pediatrics

Language:

English

Edition:

1st Ed.

Pages:

504

Publication Year:

2019

Doody's Star Rating®:

Score:

84

• Springer Nature Pediatrics Book Collection
• Springer Nature Public Health Book Collection