Indian pediatrics and child health in India.

The decade of 1980 was perhaps one of the most crucial period for Child Health in India. It is during this decade that child health issues, child health problems and child health policies were identified, recognized and announced by the Government of India. I took over as Editor of Indian Pediatrics in 1980 with a relatively young committee that included Dr. Subhash C Arya, Publication Secretary, Dr RN Srivastava, Secretary of the Committee, Dr DK Guha and Late Dr Man Mohan as Assistant Editors, and Dr Sudershan Kumari, Dr VP Choudhary, Dr SK Mittal, Dr I Narayanan, Dr UB Lall and Dr SN Lohe as Ex-officio members. The composition of the team reflected my strong feeling that the journal needed a committed dynamic team who could devote their time, energy and ideas to taking it forward.