Heather Joshi and Emla Fitzsimons . In his speech to the 1999 Labour Party conference Tony Blair compared two babies in adjacent beds on a maternity ward, delivered by the same doctors and midwives but with two ‘totally different lives…
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Children’s mental wellbeing and ill-health: not two sides of the same coin
Praveetha Patalay. If I asked you what makes a child happy, one possible answer would be the opposite of what makes them sad. This would be considered a non-controversial response. The intuitive assumption when considering subjective wellbeing and psychological distress is…
Children of the new century: mental health at age 11
Andy Bell This week Centre for Mental Health and the University College London Institute of Education published new data showing that children from the lowest income families are four times more likely to have mental health problems than those from…
Tagged with: Andy Bell, Child mental health, Millennium Cohort Study, poverty
Posted in Childhood & early education, Evidence-based policy, Research matters
Posted in Childhood & early education, Evidence-based policy, Research matters
