Global Community Child Health

Global child health

Hatherill M. Arch Dis Child (2011). doi:10.1136/adc.2011.214494 1 of 6 Accepted 6 March 2011 ABSTRACT Control of childhood tuberculosis must be considered in the context of active tuberculosis disease among adults, who form the main reservoir of transmission. The elimination target of the Stop TB Partnership is a reduction of global incidence to less than one case per million per year by 2050. ...

Global child health.

M embers and Fellows of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health showed their recognition of the need to respond to the appalling conditions in which the majority of the world’s children live. They did this in 2001 when they unanimously voted for a proportion of their annual College subscription to be used for international advocacy and education and training programmes in resource-poo...

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...