Goal 2: To promote the improved health and healthcare of vulnerable infants, children and youth including, but not limited to, those of aboriginal descent, new immigrants, those living in poverty, those who are maltreated, and those living with chronic illnesses or disabilities.
Recommendations
Activities and projects listed with each recommendation reflect any work that is being done within the child and youth health sector that may be considered relevant to, or contributing to, enacting the recommendation. Activities and projects are not necessarily being performed by members of this working group, nor were they necessarily initiated as a result of the work being done by this committee.
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Recommendation 8 - Develop Paediatric Education Modules that involve Infants, Children, Youth and Families, and Focus on Vulnerable PopulationsDevelop and implement collaborative paediatric education modules that involve infants, children, youth and their families, and that focus on advocating for vulnerable infants, children and youth (e.g., aboriginal mental health, early literacy, injury prevention).
Paediatric Undergraduate Program Directors of Canada (PUPDOC)
Agreed on the following principles:
- PUPDOC would like to remain involved in the Symposium Project
- PUPDOC will form a Steering Committee to lead our work
- All members will be consulted for their input
- A Canadian undergraduate paediatric curriculum will be developed that:
- Incorporates relevant topics from the Symposium Recommendations as well as other aspects of child and youth health,
- Includes objectives, educational resources, and assessment components, and is
- Comprehensive,
- Based on the CanMEDS principles,
- Out-come based,
- Competency based
- Translatable, and
- Flexible.
Many Hands, One Dream: New perspectives on the health of First Nations, Inuit and Métis children and youth is a collaborative initiative aimed at building a new vision of health that has children, youth and families at its core. Click here to provide additional resources for this recommendation.
Recommendation 9 - Develop a High Level Report Highlighting the Disparities in Child Healthcare in Canada
Develop a high level Institute of Medicine type report that highlights the disparities in child healthcare in Canada.
Recommendation 10 - Validate Existing Health Indicators That Will Improve the Delivery of Services to Vulnerable PopulationsValidate existing health indicators for infants, children and youth, and develop new indicators that will help improve the delivery of healthcare services especially for vulnerable infants, children and youth.
Child and Youth Health Indicators Development Program. This initiative aims to help researchers and decision makers develop and apply meaningful indicators of child and youth health and health care to ensure that decisions are evidence-based and reflect real needs.  More
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Recommendation 11 - Incorporate New and Emerging Issues into Paediatric Education Related to Vulnerable Populations
Incorporate new and emerging issues on a regular basis into the paediatric education curricula especially as they relate to the health and healthcare of vulnerable infants, children and youth.
On April 7 each year the international community celebrates World Health Day, marking the anniversary of the establishment of the World Health Organization (WHO) on April 7, 1948. The theme of World Health Day 2005 is healthy mothers and children and the slogan, Make every mother and child count. The objective is to raise awareness and promote action on a set of tragic facts: more than half a million women die from pregnancy-related causes every year; 10.6 million children under 5 also die each year, 40% of them in the first month after birth. Many of these deaths could be prevented with available interventions. It is necessary for us to work together to address this critical situation to save lives and reduce the burden of suffering. Such action will also strengthen societies since healthy mothers and children are the foundation of healthy and prosperous communities and nations.
The development of this Vision and Strategy for Children’s Health and Environment in Canada builds on years of work by the partner organizations of the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) to gather and synthesize scientific evidence about the links between environmental exposures and fetal/child health outcomes, translate it into user-friendly information and tools for broad dissemination, and engage in dialogue with decision-makers, professionals and the public about the evidence and its implications.
Paediatric Undergraduate Program Directors of Canada (PUPDOC)
Agreed on the following principles:
- PUPDOC would like to remain involved in the Symposium Project
- PUPDOC will form a Steering Committee to lead our work
- All members will be consulted for their input
- A Canadian undergraduate paediatric curriculum will be developed that:
- Incorporates relevant topics from the Symposium Recommendations as well as other aspects of child and youth health,
- Includes objectives, educational resources, and assessment components, and is
- Comprehensive,
- Based on the CanMEDS principles,
- Out-come based,
- Competency based
- Translatable, and
- Flexible.
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