title: [The pediatrician and social aspects of child health].
abstract: Accepted that it is through each pediatrician that pediatrics reaches every child, it is necessary to establish the circumstances which hinder the perception of social factors of disease on account of the actual importance of these factors. The author thinks that our perception of special factors is distorted by circumstances which act on the recruitment, during the medical education, the residency and along the professional life. The following circumstances are remarked: a reedificant scientific technology, the constraints of a manipulated consumption of sofisticated medical resources, a centralization of care in complex hospitals and a medical education which does not prepare for primary and community Medicine. The author recommends the pediatrician to recognize, with the help of an autoreflexive criticism, his failures to perceive clearly the social component of health and disease.
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D002662:Child Health Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010372:Pediatrics; D011247:Pregnancy; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: El pediatra y los aspectos sociales de la salud infantil.