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Is the ethos of medical practice in community paediatrics compatible with that in public health?
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Public health and community paediatrics go back a long way
together. At times, in their history, the two have been so closely linked as to be indistinguishable. Two early "public health"
initiatives in the UK
the establishment of the school health services,
and of maternal and child welfare clinicsbear witness to early
awareness that measures to improve children's health may be important
for the health of adults. Infant mortality rates have long been
regarded as a key indicator of the overall health of a nation in
international comparisons, and in the UK doctors working in community
child health services were first based in departments of public health. At other times the two specialties have seemed very separate. The 1974 NHS reorganisation and the concomitant development of two separate
medical specialtiescommunity child health (as community paediatrics
was then called) and community medicine (as public health medicine was
then called) pulled
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