Child-friendly PPE

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A “child-friendly” hospital: a difficult definition

It would be quite interesting and instructive to sketch the history of how children’s hospitals came to be established. Our first thought goes to the “Ospedale degli Innocenti” in Florence and the establishment of orphanages, which for many years were the only available facilities, but which took in only orphans and children abandoned by their parents. Until paediatrics became an independent br...

CPC (Child Preceptor City): Revising CFC (Child Friendly City) Model in an Islamic Iranian Context

The idea of child friendly city, to reach child welfare, makes urban spaces proper for childrens` activities. Today mant countries apply child friendly city principles, but most designed urban spaces for children in Iran are other countries` preceding examples and experiences, with no regarding to cultural context. However, urban planning does not reach its goals unless all citizens` needs are ...

The Reliability of Child-Friendly Race-Attitude Implicit Association Tests

Implicit attitudes are evaluations that are made automatically, unconsciously, unintentionally, or without conscious and deliberative processing (Nosek et al., 2007; Gawronski and De Houwer, 2014). For the last two decades implicit measures have been developed and used to assess people's attitudes and social cognition, with the most widely used measure being the Implicit Association Test (IAT; ...

How to make an eye unit child friendly

Children are not simply small adults – they have very different needs! Children are more easily frightened than adults, they get restless and irritable more quickly than adults, and they have a need to play and explore their environment. Parents and carers also need support in the eye care environment. Mothers of young babies need to have space and privacy for breastfeeding, for example. Parent...