PREVENTIVE PAEDIATRICS — NEW CHALLENGES

Colorectal cancer: towards new challenges and concepts of preventive healthcare

Colorectal cancer (CRC) holds the woeful record of being the most preventable but least prevented type of cancer. Although healthy lifestyles and screening programs associated to early polyp removal greatly reduce CRC incidence and CRC-related death, the overall lack of information and of effective preventive policies is promoting an overwhelming global escalation of this disease. Moreover, new...

Paediatrics in The Netherlands: challenges for today and tomorrow.

Paediatrics

THIS book discusses the management outside hospital of common paediatric problems encountered in the community. The topics selected are well written, informative and expertly illustrated. It helps fill a gap left by the much larger number of hospital based paediatric books and provides relevant information for general practitioners, community based paediatricians and medical students. Although ...

The child health card--a cornerstone of preventive and promotive paediatrics.

When properly used, the child health card is a relatively cheap and effective measure in the promotion of health and in the early detection and prevention of disease in infants and children. It serves as a record of birth data, growth in mass, immunization, neurological development and episodes of illness; it can also facilitate advantageous family spacing. At present the card is not achieving ...

Geriatric paediatrics.

Interest in the medicine of childhood is shifting from concern with mortality and short term morbidity to the long term effects of childhood ill health on the well being of adults. There is a clear need for very long term studies of the outcome in children exposed to deprivation and illness in early life. It has always been known that the infant mortality rate is a good index of the well being ...