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The role of advocacy in promoting better child health [PDF]
, 2016 Child health professionals play a crucial role in advocating for children and it is incumbent on all who work with them to observe and enforce the maintenance of children's rights.
Devakumar, D, Spencer, N, Waterston, T
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Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2005 Many health problems affecting children today are based in the community and cannot be easily addressed in the office setting. Child advocacy is an effective approach for pediatricians to take.To describe pediatric residents' choices of advocacy topics and interventions.Cross-sectional observational study.Residents from 3 pediatric training programs ...
Lisa J, Chamberlain +2 more
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Evaluating Children’s Advocacy Centers’ Response to Child Sexual Abuse [PDF]
, 2008 Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) play an increasingly significant role in the response to child sexual abuse and other child maltreatment in the United States. First developed in the 1980s, CACs were designed to reduce the stress on child abuse victims
Cross, Theodore P +11 more
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Law-Based Arguments and Messages to Advocate for Later School Start Time Policies in the United States [PDF]
, 2017 The increasing scientific evidence that early school start times are harmful to the health and safety of teenagers has generated much recent debate about changing school start times policies for adolescent students.
Lee, Clark J +3 more
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Child advocacy centers: Perspectives from frontline child protection workers in Michigan, USA
Child Protection and PracticeProviding a coordinated response to child abuse among professionals from diverse fields has the potential to improve outcomes for children and advance justice in abuse cases. The multidisciplinary team model, implemented through child advocacy centers in
Nathyn A. Thompson +2 more
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Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013 Child sex trafficking has become one of the most highly publicised social issues of our time and, due to its global nature, transnational anti-trafficking advocacy networks are well placed and central to lead campaigns against it.
Deanna Davy
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Ending Child Marriage in Malawi: Malawian Girl Leaders Participating [PDF]
, 2014 This case study examines how Let Girls Lead and the Girls Empowerment Network are eliminating child marriage in southern Malawi through girl-led advocacy with village ...
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor +12 more
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Supporting Minnesota's Youngest Citizens: Lessons Learned 2003-2006 [PDF]
, 2006 Presents lessons learned from the efforts of six Minnesota foundations and their grassroots coalition partners to establish early education outreach, business relationship building, parenting education, quality child care, and advocacy ...
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Child‐Led Participation: A Scoping Review of Empirical Studies
Social Inclusion, 2022 Children’s participation is a universal right recognised by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This right corresponds to an image of children as social actors because of their relevant role in achieving inclusive, equitable, and ...
Tania Mateos-Blanco +3 more
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