Child public health and social paediatrics 2017

Child public health and social paediatrics is organized by Imperial College London and would be held during Jul 03 - 04, 2017 at St Marys Campus, London, England, United Kingdom. The target audience for this medical event basically for Pediatrics, nurses, therapists, and other healthcare professionals involved in Child Health.

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.

Course Aim
To support development of competencies in child public health and social paediatrics in professional curricula.

Learning Outcomes:
• 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