The importance of the Child Health Services to the health of children: summary of the state-of-the-art document from the Sigtuna conference on Child Health Services with a view to the future.
In September 1999, a state-of-the-art conference was held in Sigtuna outside Stockholm, Sweden. The subject of the conference was the future of the Child Health Services. The approximately 40 participants included researchers from all professions with a link to child healthcare. The conference was prepared by a working committee consisting of Claes Sundelin (chairman), Uppsala, Sven Bremberg, Huddinge, Gisela Dahlqvist, Umeå, Kerstin Hedberg Nyqvist, Uppsala, Anders Håkansson, Malmö, Gunilla Lindmark, Uppsala, Birgitta Wickberg, Göteborg and Maria Nyström Peck (secretary), Stockholm. The state-of-the-art report has recently been published by the National Council for Medical Research and is briefly summarized below.
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Department of Women's and Children's Health, University Children's Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
Håkansson
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