The promotion of children's health and wellbeing: the contributions of England's charity sector.

Bhui KS, Admasachew LA, Persaud A.

Centre for Psychiatry, Barts and The London, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Old Anatomy Building, Charterhouse Square, London, UK. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Sports and arts based services for children have positive impacts on their mental and physical health. The charity sector provides such services, often set up in response to local communities expressing a need. The present study maps resilience promoting services provided by children's charities in England. Specifically, the prominence of sports and arts activities, and types of mental health provisions including telephone help-lines, are investigated.

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