Data-based child advocacy : using statistical indicators to improve the lives of children
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Data-based child advocacy : using statistical indicators to improve the lives of children
(Springer briefs in well-being and quality of life research)
Springer, c2014
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book locates, organizes and summarizes information about the use of child indicators in an advocacy context. It provides a conceptual framework that allows readers to see a wide variety of work as part of a unified field. It provides a description of key concepts and illustrates these concepts by offering many examples from a range of countries and a wide variety of applications. It covers work from governments, non-governmental organization and academics. It describes such aspects as the use of data to educate and increase public awareness, as well as to monitor, set goals and evaluate programs serving children. A growing number of organizations and people are focusing on measuring and monitoring the well-being of children and these child well-being data are often employed in ways that go beyond what is typically considered scholarship. Many of these applications involve some type of advocacy activity. Yet, there is very little in the literature about the use of child indicators in an advocacy context. This book provides a framework for scholars in a variety of disciplines that will help them to structure their thinking about the use of such indicators in a public context.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- 1 What is Data-Based Child Advocacy?.- 2 Types of Advocacy Activity Using Child Indicators.- 2.1 Increasing Public Awareness about Child Well-Being.- 2.2 Making Data on Child Well-Being Easily Available.- 2.3 Advocating for More and Better Data on Children.- 2.4 Child Well-being Monitoring.- 2.5 Goal Setting.- 2.6 Evaluating Programs and Policies.- 3 Development of the Data-Based Child Indicator Movement.- 4 Communication Issues.- 5 Conclusions.- Appendix 1 Data-Based Child Advocacy in Latin America.- Appendix 2. Some Key Questions Regarding Data-Based Child Advocacy Publications.
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