title: [The socio-professional outlook of children and adolescents with diabetes].
abstract: Intensive medical education programs started in France in 1950 have allowed French patients with diabetes mellitus to assume responsibility for their own management. Obstacles to school attendance and vocational education have been gradually overcome, in large part as a result of the efforts of non-profit organizations such as Assistance to Young Diabetics. At present, diabetics have nearly equal professional opportunities with normal children. However, some professions, such as "security jobs", remain justifiably prohibited; jobs where previous military service is required also remain out-of-bounds for diabetics, although the grounds for this restriction may be questionable. For other government agencies and private corporations, the decision to accept a subject with diabetes mellitus rests with occupational physicians, who are without doubt better informed now than before. Surveys on the long-term social outcome in subjects with diabetes mellitus since childhood have shown that the distribution of occupations is comparable to that seen in the population at large with, however, a higher prevalence of crafts persons, intellectual occupations and health care professionals.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: François
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lestradet
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000523:psychology; D004493:Education; D005544:Forecasting; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D009790:Occupations / Q000145:classification; D012917:Social Adjustment
vernacular_title: Le devenir socio-professionnel de l'enfant et de l'adolescent diabétiques.