CORE CONCEPTS OF PAEDIATRICS, COMMUNITY PAEDIATRICS & CHILD HEALTH

Question 1

By 2030, healthcare will be centered on patients empowered to _________ and __________ rather than ________________.

Answer 1

prevent diseases and promote health

seek treatment

Question 2

Pediatrics is the specialty of medical science concerned with the ___________________ , ___________________, and ___________________ health of children from birth to young adulthood (__-____years).

Answer 2

physical (biological)

psychological (mental)

social (environment conditions, creed (spiritual), culture etc)

(0-21years).

Question 3

Pediatrics encompasses a broad spectrum of health services ranging from ________ health care to the ___________ and _________ of acute and chronic diseases – AAP, 2015.

Answer 3

preventive

diagnosis and treatment

Question 4

• Paediatrics is grounded on the __________ model of health of children from birth to young adulthood (0-18yrs/19yrs/21yrs).

Answer 4

biopsychosocial

Question 5

Community paediatrics is an emerging multidisciplinary and multiagency specialty focusing
on _____________ health and population, behavioural and developmental, neurodisability, social,
child protection, and ambulatory paediatrics.

Answer 5

child public