Unit name | Child Health |
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Unit code | FMDY30002 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Alan Emond |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Health Sciences Faculty Office |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This unit aims to develop students’ interest in, as well as knowledge and understanding of:
This unit will be taught in the form of workshops using a variety of teaching methods including lectures, presentations, journal clubs, debates and seminars.
1.5 hr examination – 100% (exam length 3 hours total for two modules)
All students will complete a group presentation during the unit and the summative exam assessment at the end of the unit.
Child Health &the Rights of the Child
International Convention on the Rights of the Child. www.unicef.org/crc/index.html
Lancet series – child survival (2003): Vol. 361, pp 2172, 2226-2234, Vol. 362, pp 65-71, 159-164, 233-241, 262 and 323-327
Waterston T, Goldhagen J. Why children’s rights are central to international child health. Arch Dis Child 2007 92: 176-180
Safe Motherhood
WHO reproductive health site + WHO (1999) Standards of midwifery practice for safe motherhood www.who.int/reproductive-health
Please look at this website which graphically depicts the issues http://www.unfpa.org/safemotherhood/
Nutrition
http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/NUTRITION Management of the Child with a Serious Infection or Severe Malnutrition (2002): WHO
Perinatal Care
Seminars in Perinatology 2010 34:371-386 3.6 million neonatal deaths: progress Joy Lawn et al
http://www.healthynewbornnetwork.org/resource/36-million-neonataldeaths% E2%80%94what-progressing-and-what-not
Integrated management of childhood illness
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2005;90:732
Childhood injury
WHO website on injuries: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/en/
Peden M et al. (eds.) World Report on Child Injury Prevention.. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2008.