The Well-Being of America's Children Developing and Improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Land, Kenneth C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Σειρά: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, 6
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Maternal and child health services.; Medical research.; Quality of life.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Child and School Psychology.; Maternal and Child Health.

This volume attests to the evolution of the Child Well-Being Index and asks what it promises for understanding the progress - or lack of progress - in enhancing the life prospects of all American children.   Recent research on the general problem of conceptualizing and measuring the well-being of ch...

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• Forward by Ruby Takanishi, President, Foundation for Child Development
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• 1.  Introduction  - Kenneth C. Land
• 2.  Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of the Child and Youth Well-Being Index - Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, and Sarah Meadows
• 3.  The CWI and Its Components:  Empirical Studies and Findings - Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, Sarah Meadows, Hui Zheng, and Qiang Fu
• 4.  Measuring Social Disparities via the CWI:  Race-Ethnicity, Income, and Immigrant Status - Donald Hernandez, Suzanne Macartney, and Wendy Cervantes
•  5.  Research on the Subjective Well-Being of Children and Youth and Its Implications for the CWI  - E. Scott Huebner, Susan Antaramian, and Ashley D. Lewis
• 6.  Issues in Composite Index Construction  - Michael Hagerty and Kenneth C. Land
• 7.  Scalability of the CWI:  State-Level Indicators and Composite Indices  - Vicki L. Lamb and William P. O’Hare
• 8.  Scalability of the CWI:  Sub-State Regional Indicators and Composite Indices - Qiang Fu, Vicki L. Lamb, and Kenneth C. Land
• 9.   Intergenerational and Cross-National Comparisons of Child and Youth Well-Being - Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, and Hui Zheng
• 10.  Policy Connections and Practical Implications of the CWI  - Megan A. Curran, Shadi Houshyar, and Bruce Lesley
• 11.  Conclusions and Future Directions - Kenneth C. Land.