Hello  - I read the recent message regarding the excellent children's rights
education research that is coming from University College of Cape Breton and
Drs. Katherine Covell and Brian Howe, and I felt inspired to share my own
population health and child rights research from the west coast.

I have been engaged in a health policy review here in the Capital Health
region of Victoria - essentially bringing this internationally ratified (191
of 193 UN member states) Convention on the Rights of the Child framework for
health, human rights and human development more deeply into the Canadian
policy realm.

I have taken the liberty of sending an attached paper entitled Child Rights
in Context: A New Approach to Public Health Promotion and Policy - the
article was just submitted to the Harvard School of Public Health -
International Journal of Health and Human Rights.The conceptual framework of
my graduate research linked population health policy with  the Convention's
principles and provisions...I have since then been accepted into a PhD
in Social Policy in Edinburgh this October to replicate this research.

Any critical feedback or discussion would be greatly valued. Some health
promotion researchers feel there is too great a focus on children at the
expense or
exclusion of other critical healthcare clients and stakeholders. With the
child poverty issues in Canada I have a rather opposite bias but
would appreciate dialogue and discussion vis-a-vis the Convention, some of
Fraser Mustard, John Frank's, Clyde Hertzman's  research on early childhood
development and its potential for large payoffs across the lifespan...

Warm regards

Richard C. Mitchell, MA
Meanings & Values Child Rights Research
#52 - 76 Dallas Road -  Victoria, British Columbia
Canada - V8V 1A2 - Cell-(250) 885-1954
Fax-(250) 384-8548

".. it is still our task to create .. living glimpses of what life is meant
to be, which include art and music and poetry and shared laughter and
politics and moral outrage and special privileges for children only and
wonder and humor and endless love, to counterbalance the otherwise
immobilizing realities of tyrants, starving children, death camps and just
plain greed." Robert McAfee Brown

" The focus of our work is 'empowerment' - of the poor to control their own
lives, and of citizens to have an impact on their government's policies."
Sam Harris, Founder and Executive Director, RESULTS International