European Child Health Services: Lessons Without Borders - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0335264662 ISBN 13: 9780335264667

Casa editrice: Open University Press, 2013

Riassunto

In recent decades the health needs of children in Europe have changed.

We see more chronic disease than ever before, and persistent inequalities in health and wellbeing. However, despite increasingly sophisticated technology, the delivery of care and organizational structures of healthcare services have not evolved sufficiently to meet these challenges.

Taking a purposefully child-centric view this book aims toimprove our understanding of children's health services across Europe. Focusing on 10 Western European countries the book combines primary and secondary research on children's health services and wider child health systems.

Drawing extensively on literature reviews, government data,clinical case studies and a questionnaire distributed to child health leaders, the authors identify the common themes that are contributing to child health across the European landscape.

This book includes chapters on topics such as:

• Primary care for children
• Services for long-term conditions and non-communicable disease
• Child public health
• Mental health and behavioural disorders
• Services for vulnerable and maltreated children

This book illustrates that European countries face many common challenges in their attempts to improve child health, and highlights the opportunities for learning from each other. The authors conclude this book with a strategy for improving the capacity of European health systems to drive improvements in health and equity.

The findings in this book have already begun to inform how we think about the future of children's healthcare. This book serves as a wake-up call to all those concerned with the well-being of Europe's children.

Contributors: Jasmine Armour-Marshall, Sven Bremberg, Ann van den Bruel, Woody Caan, Rose Crowley, Peter Gill, Rittakerttu Kaltia-Heino, Marina Karanikolos, Sebastian Kraemer, Simon Lenton, Martin McKee, Arja Rimpelä, Giorgio Tamburlini, June Thoburn, Matthew Thompson, Pieter Auke Wiegersma, Ingrid Wolfe.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Contenuti:

Forewords by Professor Massimo Pettoello-Mantovani, Professor Jochen Ehrich and Professor Dame Sally Davies
Acknowledgements

1: Child health in Europe: an overview
2: Primary care for children
3: Health services for children with long-term conditions and non-communicable disease
4: Transition from children’s to adults’ services
5: Child public health
6: Schools and the health of children and young people
7: Young people’s health and health services
8: Mental health and behavioural disorders
9: Services for vulnerable and maltreated children
10: Prescribing for children in Europe
11: Comprehensive strategies for improving child health services in Europe

Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Open University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0335264662
• ISBN 13: 9780335264667
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Redattore: Wolfe Ingrid