The Child Health Care System in Italy

Giovanni Corsello, Pietro Ferrara, Gianpietro Chiamenti, Luigi Nigri, Angelo Campanozzi, Massimo Pettoello-Mantovani

Risultato della ricerca: Contributo in rivistaArticolo in rivista

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Abstract

Pediatric care in Italy has been based during the last 40 years on the increased awareness of the importance of meeting the psychosocial and developmental needs of children and of the role of families in promoting the health and well-being of their children. The pediatric health care system in Italy is part of the national health system. It is made up of 3 main levels of intervention: first access/primary care, secondary care/hospital care, and tertiary care based on specialty hospital care. This overview will also include a brief report on neonatal care, pediatric preventive health care, health service accreditation programs, and postgraduate training in pediatrics. The quality of the Italian child health care system is now considered to be in serious danger because of the restriction of investments in public health caused both by the 2008 global and national economic crisis and by a reduction of the pediatric workforce as a result of progressively insufficient replacement of specialists in pediatrics.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)S116-S126
RivistaTHE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
Volume177S
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2016

Keywords

  • children care
  • hospital
  • public health
  • vaccinations

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