Research in community child health.

Research in community child health.

Community child health in crisis.

I n her personal view, Dr Mather has hit the nail on the head when she describes the world as currently viewed by many community paediatricians. On the one hand, most paediatricians who hold a post with the word ‘‘community’’ somewhere in their title or job description would talk enthusiastically about the uniquely varied, challenging, and frequently rewarding nature of their clinical work. How...

Community child health training.

his leading article aims to highlight the main training issues in community child health (CCH) and, in light of work done so far, discuss provision of appropriate numbers of well trained paediatricians to meet the needs of the nation's children. Community child health is a subspe-cialty of paediatric medicine that has undergone much change in structure and service provision in recent years, and...

Implementation research on community health workers’ provision of maternal and child health services in rural Liberia

OBJECTIVE To assess changes in the use of essential maternal and child health services in Konobo, Liberia, after implementation of an enhanced community health worker (CHW) programme. METHODS The Liberian Ministry of Health partnered with Last Mile Health, a nongovernmental organization, to implement a pilot CHW programme with enhanced recruitment, training, supervision and compensation. To a...

Community paediatrics and child health.

243 April 2015, Vol. 105, No. 4 Community paediatrics and child health To the Editor: In 2012, the Postgraduate Education Committee of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) supported the accreditation of Community Paediatrics and Child Health (CPCH) as a paediatric subspecialty; however, full HPCSA approval is outstanding. Consequently, by February 2015 there had been no visibl...