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Pediatric Care and Health Strategies

Pediatrics is the study and treatment of children from conception through adolescence. Pediatricians are doctors who specialize in children's health, focusing on improving physical, mental, behavioral, psychological and social well-being as well as reducing morbidity and mortality. Pediatrics is an independent field because children's health issues differ from adults' in ways like age-related responses to illness. Common diseases in developing countries include protein-energy malnutrition, diarrhea, malaria, pneumonia, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, which account for 75% of pediatric admissions. Strategies to improve child survival include primary healthcare, reproductive health programs, and integrated management of childhood illness.

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Pediatric Care and Health Strategies

Pediatrics is the study and treatment of children from conception through adolescence. Pediatricians are doctors who specialize in children's health, focusing on improving physical, mental, behavioral, psychological and social well-being as well as reducing morbidity and mortality. Pediatrics is an independent field because children's health issues differ from adults' in ways like age-related responses to illness. Common diseases in developing countries include protein-energy malnutrition, diarrhea, malaria, pneumonia, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, which account for 75% of pediatric admissions. Strategies to improve child survival include primary healthcare, reproductive health programs, and integrated management of childhood illness.

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PEDIATRIC

DEPARTMENT
By –
Rincy
Definition

It is a study of the child from conception through childhood


and adolescence. It include childcare, prevention and
treatment of disease .
Doctors Role in Pediatrics

 Pediatricians are medical doctors who have


specialized training in evaluating, diagnosing and
treating children.

 Responsibility :-To improve children's


physical,mental,behavioural,psychological and
social health ;reduce their morbidity &mortality.
Why Pediatrics

 Pediatrics is an independent subject


because;
✓ Problems of children differ from those of adults in many ways

✓ Children response to an illness is influenced by age.

✓ Children needs special care because they are among the most
vulnerable in society.
History of Pediatrics

 Pediatrics was born just over a centaury


ago in the prosperous countries of the
West. It is however, young in Tanzania and
other developing countries. The first
pediatric ward in Tanzania was
operational in 1970 at Muhimbili National
Hospital. Training of pediatricians and
other Medical Specialists in Tanzania
started in 1973.
Stages of Children by Age

 Infant period

 Toddler age

 Pre-school age

 School age

 Adolescence
Layout & staffing

 Ground floor

 Pediatrician -1
 Staff nurse- 1
Equipments
Factors which Affect Health

 Climate
 Environment
 Geography
 Education
 Prevalence and ecology of infectious agents and hosts
 Social and cultural considerations.
Diseases pattern in
developing countries
Relative frequency of diseases responsible for admissions in
developing countries.
The major causes of admissions include;
 Protein energy malnutrition(severe)
 Acute watery diarrhea
 Malaria
 Pneumonia
 HIV/AIDS(pediatric Aids)
 TB
Cont.…..

These account for 75%of the admissions.


Miscellaneous diseases account for only 25% of the
cases.
At the OPD,the following dominate the list
 Malaria
 ARI
 Protein energy Malnutrions
 TB
 Measles
Emergency drugs

 Nebulizations
 Steroids
 Antibiotics
Complications of newborns

 Asphyxia Neonatorum

 Neonatal septicemia

 Low birthweight
New Problems

 Drug abuse among adolescents.

 Child abuse and neglect

 Street children

 Child labor

 Discrimination against the female child


Strategies to improve child
survival
 Primary health care (PHC)-Alma Ata declaration
health for all by the year 2000
 Reproductive health
 ARI mgmt.
 Rx of AWD
 Immunizations
 IMCI(Integrated Management of child
illness)schemes
Strategies to improve child
survival[cont..]

 Control of malaria

 Control of HIV/AIDS

 Essential drug program

 Control of TB

 Breast feeding

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