What's the use of 'well-being' in contexts of child poverty? approaches to research, monitoring and children's participation

International Journal of Children's Rights

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-109

  Camfield, Laura ^a   Streuli, Natalia ^a   Woodhead, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Methodology; Rights based approaches; Well being; Young lives

Indexed keywords

EID: 59849115815     PISSN: 09275568     EISSN: 15718182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157181808X357330     Document Type: Article

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