Current Paediatrics
Volume 13, Issue 3 , Pages 237-240, June 2003

Social paediatrics

  • Jo Sibert

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: JS. E-mail: sibert@cf.ac.uk

Professor of Community Child Health, University of Wales College of Medicine, Llandough Hospital, Penarth, Wales, UK

Abstract 

Social paediatrics concerns the duty of paediatricians to do their best to ameliorate the effects of poverty and disadvantage in children. Disadvantage has profound effects on children but the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child helps to focus our work not only on treating disease, but also on preventing it. Specific groups of disadvantaged children – looked-after children, children in refuges and refugee children – have particular health needs. We must focus our clinical practice to deal effectively with socially deprived children using a multidisciplinary and problem-orientated approach.

Keywords:  social paediatrics, disadvantage, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

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PII: S0957-5839(03)00007-1

doi:10.1016/S0957-5839(03)00007-1

Current Paediatrics
Volume 13, Issue 3 , Pages 237-240, June 2003

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