EUROPEAN SOCIETY
FOR SOCIAL PEDIATRICS and CHILD HEALTH - ESSOP

ESSOP Position statements

·        Social inequalities in child health – towards equity and social justice in child health outcomes [pdf – 115KB]

Garth’s Top Hot Reads

Click on the month to download a summary of interesting readings selected by Garth Alperstein and others (around 40KB Word documents)

·        2007: February – March - April – May - June - July– August - September – October – November - December

·        2006: February – March - April – May - June – July – August - September – October – November - December

·        2005: July – August – September – October – November – December

Books

·        Social Paediatrics. Edited by Bengt Lindstrom and Nick Spencer. 614 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-262179-3. Reviewed in The New England Journal of Medicine -- November 30, 1995 -- Vol. 333, No. 22

·        Soigner différemment les enfants - l'approche de la pédiatrie sociale. Dr. Gilles Julien, Les Éditions Logiques, Montréal, Canada, 1999. 296 pages. http://www.infobuz.com/aed/montage/soigner.html

·        Milivoj Jovančević, Mladen Knežević & Ljubomir Hotujac, editors. Providing assistance in crisis situations to families with babies or toddlers. Zagreb 2006. 133 pages. [pdf 2 MB]

Papers

·        ESSOP--25 years: personal reflections from one who started the European Society for Social Paediatrics.
Lennart Kohler; European Society for Social Paediatrics
Child Care Health Dev. 2003 Sep;29(5):321-8

·        Glossary - Social paediatrics
Nick Spencer, Concha Colomer, Garth Alperstein, Paul Bouvier, Julia Colomer, Olivier Duperrex, Gulbin Gokcay, Gilles Julien, Lennart Kohler, Bengt Lindstrom, Aidan Macfarlane, Raul Mercer, Takis Panagiotopoulos, Tom Schulpen on behalf of the European Society for Social Paediatrics
J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59:106-108

Courses

Children's right to the best possible health. A child rights curriculum for health professionals on implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This material is freely available for teaching about children's rights in health care to health and allied professionals. It has been developed by a joint group of the Royal College of Paediatrics and CHild Health (UK) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (USA) and is owned by these two organisations. It is primarily intended for trainees in paediatrics but could be used by nurses, allied professionals and psychologists etc, ideally in mixed discipline groups.
The courses are not yet finalised and feedback is welcomed. There is a short course intended to be taught in two separate one hour blocks, and a longer course lasting 6 hours. The full UN Convention itself should also be available to trainees and will be included in the handouts. Please make use of the material on the condition that attribution is made to the RCPCH and AAP and that feedback is provided to me!
Tony Waterston (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

  • Long course - Part 1 - sessions 1 to 3   doc [177KB]
  • Long course - Part 1 - sessions 41 to 6   doc [124KB]
  • Short course   doc [97KB]
  • Full text of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child   htm

 

The Equity Project

The Equity Project was established in 2000 as a joint project of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the UK and the American Academy of Pediatrics in the USA. The project aims to establish a base for tackling equity in child health through teaching, research and practice. Already two pieces of the work of the EP are on the website: a statement on equity and a teaching course on children's rights. In March 2007, a further meeting of the group in Harrogate, England made the first steps towards developing a toolkit for teaching about Children's Rights to paediatricians. This work is ongoing and it is hoped to involve ESSOP members. The presentations at that meeting are now being placed on the Essop website.

For further information on the Equity Project or offers of assistance, contact
        Tony Waterston     a.j.r.waterston@ncl.ac.uk
        Jeff Goldhagen      jeffrey.goldhagen@jax.ufl.edu

Documents and presentation from the meeting in Harrogate from the Equity project workshop on training in children’s rights in York 30th-31st March 2007 are available here.

 

Participation of ESSOP in other congresses

  • 25th ICP in Athens in August 2007 - round table: Children's Rights and Child Health: The Interface
    S. Tsitoura [pdf 514 KB] – N. Spencer [pdf 110 KB] – G. Alperstein [pdf] – H. Bahaaeldin [pdf 85 KB]