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Social policy and child health
Author(s) -
Eisenberg L
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1994.tb13208.x
Subject(s) - mental health , medicine , covert , set (abstract data type) , health policy , relevance (law) , rubric , child health , psychiatry , public health , psychology , nursing , law , family medicine , political science , computer science , programming language , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics education
Under the rubric of social policy and child mental health are two overlapping but conceptually different areas. The first set is the social policy questions with direct relevance to child mental health programs per se; that is, decisions about whether a given child mental health proposal merits the investment of community resources. The second category of social forces is that which has important secondary consequences for child mental health although child mental health per se may never enter the discussion; for example, policy decisions which have a major impact on family life (women's rights, tax policy, divorce law, employment policy, etc.). This paper will review the first category, the overt policy issues, before moving on to the second category, the “covert” child health debate.