title: The role of community paediatrics in South Africa.
abstract: Community paediatrics in South Africa is concerned with helping to identify the factors that retard realization of the full developmental potential of the nation's children. It is also concerned with the removal of such blocking factors. Paediatricians familiar with the orientation and methods of community medicine are suited to this task, which involves: (i) co-operation with all health, education and welfare organizations concerned with child care; (ii) taking part in the education of all child care professionals; (iii) taking part in the planning and organization of child care services; and (iv) being concerned with clinical care, particularly at primary care and rehabilitative levels.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics; D013019:South Africa