Child Public Health and Social Paediatrics 2016

Child Public Health and Social Paediatrics 2016 is organized by Imperial College London and would be held during Jul 4 - 5, 2016 at St Marys Campus, London, England, United Kingdom. The targeted audience for this medical event basically for paediatricians, GPs, nurses, therapists, and other healthcare professionals involved in Child Health.

This medical conference 2016 aims at to support development of competencies in child public health and social paediatrics in professional curricula.

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.

Learning Outcomes
To be able to:
• 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