appraisal of issues and challenges common to many low- and middle-income contexts, and drawing in detail on South African conditions and infl uences, policy and regulatory frameworks, health services infrastructure and health system considerations, the text has wide application to the realities of the southern African and similar regions.
New to this edition: • The text discusses child health aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals and other global trends in health.
• The fourth edition off ers updated population health perspectives on priority conditions such as malnutrition, diarrhoea, childhood injuries, behaviour problems and allergic conditions, as well as current data relating to the state of children’s health in South Africa.
• The text includes revised discussion of critical aspects of health promotion and prevention in childhood, such as immunisation, nutrition and early childhood development.
• The revised fourth edition off ers perspectives on all aspects of health systems (e.g. drugs and medical supplies, fi nancing, leadership and governance), and includes discussion of an expanded array of health services topics including emergency care, private health and surgical services for children.
Table of Contents Part 1 Child Health: the big picture • Chapter 1: Child health in context
• Chapter 2: The global context: international
child health • Chapter 3: Children’s rights and health • Part 2 Determinants of child health • Chapter 4: Poverty, social inequity and child health • Chapter 5: Environmental infl uences on child health • Chapter 6: Psychological factors in child health • Part 3 The normal child • Chapter 7: Physical growth in childhood and adolescence • Chapter 8: Neurodevelopment • Chapter 9: Psychosocial development • Chapter 10: Common functional problems • Part 4 Keeping children healthy • Chapter 11: Child health promotion • Chapter 12: Adolescent child health promotion • Chapter 13: Child health advocacy • Chapter 14: Growth monitoring • Chapter 15: Infant and child nutrition • Chapter 16: Immunisation • Chapter 17: Oral health • Chapter 18: Health surveillance • Chapter 19: Making healthy adults • Part 5 Policy in child health • Chapter 20: Child health policy • Chapter 21: Child legislation • Chapter 22: Human resources for child health services • Part 6 Training for child health • Chapter 23: Training and retention of professional child health workers • Chapter 24: Integrated management of childhood illness • Chapter 25: Continuing education and training of nurses • Part 7 Services for children • Chapter 26: Levels of health care with special reference to children • Chapter 27: Perinatal services • Chapter 28: Medical genetic services for the care and prevention of birth defects • Chapter 29: School and crèche health • Chapter 30: Health services for adolescents • Chapter 31: Mental health services for children and adolescents • Chapter 32: Support for children: social services and social security • Chapter 33: The role of the district medical offi cer working in child health • Chapter 34: The allied health care team • Chapter 35: Nursing care • Chapter 36: Community-based child care • Chapter 37: Access to health care services for children • Part 8 Priority diseases in children • Chapter 38: Mortality, burden of disease, and cost-eff ectiveness of interventions • Chapter 39: Neonatal disorders • Chapter 40: HIV infection • Chapter 41: Acute respiratory infections • Chapter 42: Diarrhoeal disease • Chapter 43: Vaccine-preventable disease • Chapter 44: Malnutrition • Chapter 45: Childhood injuries • Chapter 46: Malaria • Chapter 47: Tuberculosis • Chapter 48: Childhood asthma • Chapter 49: Psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence • Chapter 50: Parasitic infections of the gut
• Chapter 51: Cot death • Part 9 Vulnerable children • Chapter 52: Children in diffi cult circumstances •
Chapter 53: The abused child • Chapter 54: Orphans and vulnerable children • Chapter 55: The child with a disability • Chapter 56: The child with a long-term health condition • Part 10 Ethics in child health • Chapter 57: Ethical issues in child health • Chapter 58: Death, dying and palliative care • Chapter 59: Consent and capacity in paediatrics • Part 11 Measuring child health • Chapter 60: Basic epidemiology • Chapter 61: Child health indicators • Chapter 62: Audit of child health services • Chapter 63: Evidence-based paediatric practice
Coovadia’s Paediatrics & Child Health: A manual for health professionals in developing countries 8e
Content editor: R Green
Coovadia’s Paediatrics and Child Health a renowned and comprehensive guide to the clinical diagnosis, treatment and management of specifi c child health conditions and diseases. With an emphasis on primary care, and addressing both theoretical- and applied aspects, the text adopts a problem-based approach that supports the holistic management of children’s health. Presenting a strong focus on the regional context, the text off ers extensive discussion of localized issues, conditions and infl uences, and of the challenges and diseases that are particular to the southern African region. Supporting eff ective learning and diagnosis, the eighth edition now includes a colour photographs and images that illustrate clinical conditions, where appropriate.
Coovadia’s Paediatrics and Child Health serves as a core text for undergraduate courses in paediatrics, in programmes of medical science, as well as a valued reference for paediatric interns and community service doctors, primary care doctors, paediatric registrars, paediatricians, and regional and international child health advocates and agencies.
PAPERBACK OCT 2021 OUP SA
960 PAGES 9780190758462 9780190758677
MEDICAL: PAEDIATRICS
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