Child: care, health and development
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Child Care Health Dev · May 2007
Caregiver experiences, contextualizations and understandings of the burn injury to their child. Accounts from low-income settings in South Africa.
Childhood burn injury is a widespread phenomenon with a disproportionate concentration in Sub-Saharan Africa. Burn injuries may have far-reaching and traumatic interpersonal, social and occupational effects for young children. There has been scant attention to the caregiver's experience of these events. This study sought to explore the caregiver's understanding of the injury to their children, the injury causes and its preventability. ⋯ Caregivers emphasized the multifactorial nature of the burn injury event and highlighted the adverse environmental, domestic and personal circumstances to their child's burn injury. Their recommendations for burn prevention avoidance and control are consistent with their understanding of the injury aetiology and demonstrate a synergy with public health recommendations for environmental and technological interventions.
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Child Care Health Dev · May 2007
Career choices for paediatrics: national surveys of graduates of 1974-2002 from UK medical schools.
Knowledge of UK doctors' career intentions and pathways is essential for understanding future workforce requirements. The aim of this study was to report career choices for and career progression in paediatrics in the UK. ⋯ The proportion of junior doctors wishing to become paediatricians has not changed much during the last 30 years. The planned increase in the number of medical school graduates is necessary to increase the number of UK-trained consultant paediatricians. Medical students who experience enthusiastic and stimulating training in paediatrics may be more likely to become paediatricians.