A COMMUNITY CHILD HEALTH SURVEY

Community child health training.

his leading article aims to highlight the main training issues in community child health (CCH) and, in light of work done so far, discuss provision of appropriate numbers of well trained paediatricians to meet the needs of the nation's children. Community child health is a subspe-cialty of paediatric medicine that has undergone much change in structure and service provision in recent years, and...

Research in community child health.

Community paediatrics and child health.

243 April 2015, Vol. 105, No. 4 Community paediatrics and child health To the Editor: In 2012, the Postgraduate Education Committee of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) supported the accreditation of Community Paediatrics and Child Health (CPCH) as a paediatric subspecialty; however, full HPCSA approval is outstanding. Consequently, by February 2015 there had been no visibl...

Community child health in crisis.

I n her personal view, Dr Mather has hit the nail on the head when she describes the world as currently viewed by many community paediatricians. On the one hand, most paediatricians who hold a post with the word ‘‘community’’ somewhere in their title or job description would talk enthusiastically about the uniquely varied, challenging, and frequently rewarding nature of their clinical work. How...

Equity and community child health.

Paediatricians have always played a leading part in ensuring that local child health services are of the best possible quality and are most suited to the needs of the local population. Three important dimensions of the quality of health services are that they should be effective and that they should be delivered efficiently and equitably. 2 These three dimensions apply to the child health servi...