- Medical_Professionals
- Medical_students
- Nurses
CHILD PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL PAEDIATRICS
This short course will cover the following areas:- Child health in the UK and Europe, measures of health and disease, current important child health problems affecting our children, child health in developing countries -- the majority world and why international child health is important.
Global burden of childhood disease, to include infectious disease, AIDS and HIV, violence, reproductive health, tropical diseases and disability will also be studied. Children's rights and their relevance to child public health, determinants of child health and historical aspects of child public health in the UK will be investigated.
Other aspects will include: techniques and resources for child public health practice, concepts and definitions in public health and health promotion practice, social paediatrics - definitions and scope and vulnerable children and their needs. It will also build on earlier teaching on "disease causation", epidemiological study design and lifecourse epidemiology approaches in the science and evidence base module.
Case studies in child public health and social paediatrics (including obesity prevention, promotion of immunisation, promotion of emotional health, injury prevention approaches service design for looked after children, recognition of domestic violence, and mitigating the health consequences of poverty and disadvantage will be the mainstay of this module.
Describe how child health has changed in the past 100 years in UK and worldwide
Describe a determinants framework of child health which can be used both in clinical practice and epidemiological research
Appreciate the value of Children’s Rights and give examples of their use in advocacy and service provision
Compare and contrast diagnosis in clinical and child public health practice
List the main techniques used in child public health practice
Describe the various levels of safeguarding
Formulate plans in relation to different social paediatric case scenarios
GBP
2018-03-03
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Accompanying persons not allowed
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Continuing Professional Development , Imperial College London
Phone: +44-20-7589-5111
Continuing Professional Development , Imperial College London
Phone: +44-20-7589-5111