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Editorial

Edited by: Frances E. Aboud, McGill University

A growing number of articles published in Social Science & Medicine concern child health.  Social Science & Medicine provides a unique outlet for research that examines children's health from a social science perspective with sufficient breadth to apply internationally.  A social science perspective introduces the impact of children's parents and peers who, in addition to socializing children, also provide the basis of major social institutions such as families, schools and communities.  Children are influenced by and in turn influence their social environments.  This is captured by the developmental-contextual perspective which views "human development as the dynamic interaction between a changing individual in a changing context” (Schoon, Sacker & Bartley, 2003: 1001; see also Hertzman & Power, 2003). The recently published studies selected to be part of this Virtual Special Issue on Children's Health provide vivid examples of healthy development within a variety of contexts.

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Articles in the Virtual Special Issue

2007

External linkAre urban children really healthier? Evidence from 47 developing countries. 1986-2003
Social Science & Medicine, Volume 65, Issue 10, November 2007
Van de Poel, E., O'Donnell, O, & Van Doorslaer, E., (2007). 

External linkOlder sibling as supervisors: Does this influence young children's risk of unintentional injury? 
Social Science & Medicine, Volume 64, Issue 4, February 2007
Morrongiello, B.A., MacIsaac, T.J., & Klemencic, N

External linkChina's one-child policy and overweight children in the 1990s
Social Science & Medicine, Volume 64, Issue 10, May 2007
Yang, J.

2006

External linkBrazilian mothers' knowledge about home dangers and safety precautions: an initial evaluation
Social Science & Medicine, Volume 63, Issue 7, May 2006
de Castro Ribas, R., Tymchuk, A.J., & Ribas, D.F.P.

External linkResponsive complementary feeding in rural Bangladesh
Social Science & Medicine,Volume 62, Issue 8, April 2006
Moore, A.C., Akhter, S., & Aboud, F.E.

2005

External link"If they rape me, I can't blame them": Reflections on gender in the social context of child rape in South Africa and Namibia
Social Science & Medicine, Volume 61, Issue 8, October 2005
Jewkes, R., Penn-Kekana, L., & Rose-Junius, H.

External linkPsychological distress among AIDS orphans in rural Uganda Psychological distress among AIDS orphans in rural Uganda
Social Science & Medicine, Volume 61, Issue 3, August 2005
Atwine, B., Cantor-Graae, E., & Bajunirwe, F.

2004

External linkFrom symptom recognition to diagnosis: children with autism in urban India
Social Science & Medicine, Volume 58, Issue 7, April 2004
Daley, T.C.

2003

External linkSocio-economic adversity and psychosocial adjustment: a developmental-contextual perspective
Social Science & Medicine, Volume 57, Issue 6, September 2003
Schoon, I., Sacker, A., & Bartley, M.

2002

External linkSocial integration of children with epilepsy in rural India
Social Science & Medicine, Volume 54, Issue 12, June 2002
Pal, D.K., Chaudhury, G., Sengupta, S., & Das, T.


  
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