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.