A new study by a member of the UK Dartington Social Research Unit team tries to bring light to the argument about how to improve the well-being of all Europe's children – by offering a definition of well-being that synthesizes insights into needs, rights, poverty and social exclusion.

Cooperative Extension, the method originally developed for turning advances in agricultural science into better farming methods, is being utilized in Ireland to transfer prevention science research into community-based initiatives for the benefit of all the country’s children.

Evidence about the longer-term performance of the latest generation of community-driven public health interventions is beginning to emerge from a University of Washington research comparison.