Health Issues and Adolescents: Growing Up, Speaking Out

by Janet Shucksmith and Leo Hendry

Young people do not on the whole speak for themselves: they are spoken for by adults. Most research and policy agendas relating to young people are dominated by adult concerns about young people's health - rarely are the issues looked at from young people's perspective. This gap in our knowledge may be a critical factor in explaining some of the problems that health educators face in getting young people to transform health knowledge into action.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041516849X
• ISBN13: 9780415168496
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"