[Pediatrics of the future or the future of pediatrics].
International Pediatric Association indicates, for all the pediatricians of the world, a series of recommendations that favour, together with medical-therapeutic and equal (if not greater) dignity, the prevention and advocacy functions. These indications reflect the rapid change in children's needs that occurred in the North of the world during the last ten years. The same change, instead, did not happen in most of the inhabited world, where the problem of infantile high mortality remains one of the main unsolved problems of public health. A second problem is the gap between pediatric sub-specialties, which concentrate in very few hospitals (from one in one million to one in five million inhabitants), and community pediatrics, which needs a limited number of admissions and requires, instead, a coordinated action among hospital and territorial services and family doctors. This gap weighs on the academic medicine and in general on the teaching of pediatrics, both in graduate and degree courses.
Panizon
Franco
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Università, Trieste.
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