Grounded in the reality of everyday life, and benefiting from the editors' direct experience, "Prioritising Child Health" opens up the debate on prioritisation by individuals and explores the issues surrounding their decisions. Prioritization is a fact of life for most health professionals whether in an overt attempt to control access to a service or in the daily struggle to manage a caseload. Bringing together perspectives from a range of theoretical viewpoints and examples of prioritization in practice, this book aims to: illustrate prioritisation in practice at different stages in the process of client management; review the process of prioritisation from the viewpoint of a range of disciplines; develop a new understanding of the process of prioritisation; and, identify principles of good practice for the child health practitioner. Providing helpful guidance for practitioners and managers of child therapy and nursing services, "Prioritising Child Health" encourages readers to make their own judgements about how to prioritise.