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Health Inequity Experienced by Australian Paediatric Patients, 2021
Having seen an overview of the findings relating to the SDH as well as the vignettes which presen... more Having seen an overview of the findings relating to the SDH as well as the vignettes which presented six of the children's/young people's stories in Chap. 3, we now turn to the detailed analyses of the SDH. This chapter commences with a presentation of the demographic features associated with this cohort as well as some brief descriptive statistical analyses in order to provide a clear sense of the medical conditions for which patients presented, the various age groups comprising the cohort, the parts of Australia where patients were presumably residing, as well as the patients' backgrounds. The definitions provided in Chap. 1 are important to bear in mind when considering the cohorts' demographic features. The chapter then focuses on the analyses associated with the SDH identified as impacting adversely on the health and wellbeing of the children/young people reported on by healthcare professionals to whom these patients had presented for medical attention. We remind readers that the health professionals were reporting on patients in a de-identified manner for the purpose of writing their Health Inequity Case Reports (CRs), as part of their assessment for the Sydney Child Health Program (SCHP) (formerly Diploma in Child Health (DCH and IPPC) (see Chap. 2). The highly detailed and very rich results arising from extensive qualitative analyses aimed at identifying the depth and breadth of health inequity and comprises the bulk of the entire research project. All the SDH identified are presented in tabular form and tables summarizing the findings and the prevalence of each SDH and its sub-themes are presented at the beginning of most sections to provide a context within which the reader considers the findings.
Family Medicine and Community Health, 2016
Worldwide deaths of children younger than 5 years reduced from 12.7 million in 1990 to 6.3 millio... more Worldwide deaths of children younger than 5 years reduced from 12.7 million in 1990 to 6.3 million in 2013. Much of this decline is attributed to an increase in the knowledge, skills, and abilities of child health professionals. In turn this increase in knowledge, skills, and abilities has been brought about by increased child-health-focused education available to child health professionals. Therefore child-health-focused education must be part of the strategy to eliminate the remaining 6.3 million deaths and to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. This article describes a child-health-focused program that was established in 1992 and operates in 20 countries: Australia,
Health Inequity Experienced by Australian Paediatric Patients, 2021
Having seen an overview of the findings relating to the SDH as well as the vignettes which presen... more Having seen an overview of the findings relating to the SDH as well as the vignettes which presented six of the children's/young people's stories in Chap. 3, we now turn to the detailed analyses of the SDH. This chapter commences with a presentation of the demographic features associated with this cohort as well as some brief descriptive statistical analyses in order to provide a clear sense of the medical conditions for which patients presented, the various age groups comprising the cohort, the parts of Australia where patients were presumably residing, as well as the patients' backgrounds. The definitions provided in Chap. 1 are important to bear in mind when considering the cohorts' demographic features. The chapter then focuses on the analyses associated with the SDH identified as impacting adversely on the health and wellbeing of the children/young people reported on by healthcare professionals to whom these patients had presented for medical attention. We remind readers that the health professionals were reporting on patients in a de-identified manner for the purpose of writing their Health Inequity Case Reports (CRs), as part of their assessment for the Sydney Child Health Program (SCHP) (formerly Diploma in Child Health (DCH and IPPC) (see Chap. 2). The highly detailed and very rich results arising from extensive qualitative analyses aimed at identifying the depth and breadth of health inequity and comprises the bulk of the entire research project. All the SDH identified are presented in tabular form and tables summarizing the findings and the prevalence of each SDH and its sub-themes are presented at the beginning of most sections to provide a context within which the reader considers the findings.
Family Medicine and Community Health, 2016
Worldwide deaths of children younger than 5 years reduced from 12.7 million in 1990 to 6.3 millio... more Worldwide deaths of children younger than 5 years reduced from 12.7 million in 1990 to 6.3 million in 2013. Much of this decline is attributed to an increase in the knowledge, skills, and abilities of child health professionals. In turn this increase in knowledge, skills, and abilities has been brought about by increased child-health-focused education available to child health professionals. Therefore child-health-focused education must be part of the strategy to eliminate the remaining 6.3 million deaths and to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. This article describes a child-health-focused program that was established in 1992 and operates in 20 countries: Australia,