Promoting the Welfare and Well-Being of Vulnerable Children
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Children's Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2023) | Viewed by 2044
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The well-being of vulnerable children is essential for global equality; whether due to poverty, disability, poor access to education, experiences of maltreatment, or other life challenges threatening their expected development, the need to focus on the welfare and well-being of vulnerable children is a public health issue. There are bodies of knowledge having begun to address the welfare and well-being of children; the pandemic, however, resulted in differential access to resources and information, accelerating vulnerabilities across the globe. These vulnerabilities must be better understood, including the inequalities that create and perpetuate exposure, and the interventions that aim to decrease negative outcomes and increase equality. Current knowledge concerning risk and protective factors of welfare and well-being differs depending on the vulnerability. However, similarities among knowledge suggest that contributing factors differentially occur at multiple levels, i.e., the child, family, community, and society. To promote the welfare and well-being of vulnerable children, a strong understanding of factors contributing to children’s outcomes and how to address risk or promote resilience is required. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to address this problem by inviting research manuscripts addressing the welfare and well-being of vulnerable children, launching or adding to the evidence base.
Dr. Kristen Lwin
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- child well-being
- child welfare
- child poverty
- child maltreatment
- child outcomes
