Pediatrics

Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends people be under pediatric care through the age of 21 (though usually only minors are cared for by pediatricians). In the United Kingdom, pediatrics covers patients until age 18. Worldwide age limits of pediatrics have been trending up year over year. A medical doctor who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician, or paediatrician. The word pediatrics and its cognates mean "healer of children"; they derive from two Greek words: παῖς …

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WHO: World Health Organization · 18 November 2024 English

iv, 58 p.

St. Geme III JW, editors. Nelson textbook of pediatrics, two-volume set. Philadelphia: Elsevier; 2024



RAND Corporation · 11 November 2024 English

The authors of this report analyze data from the American Community Survey, providing valuable context for understanding the social and economic resource environment of veterans and their families and identifying …

Needs of Children in US Military Families,” Pediatrics, Vol. 143, No. 1, January 2019. IPUMS USA, “Definition


WHO: World Health Organization · 8 November 2024 English

vii, 25 p., This report supports activities currently underway to reduce the burden of environment-related disease on the health of the population of Kosovo[‎1]‎ and create a more resilient society …

for example, to: sanitary hygiene; preventive pediatrics; medical social work; health promotion; health


WHO: World Health Organization · 7 November 2024 English

iv, 10 p.

helping babies survive in humanitarian settings. Pediatrics. 2020;146(suppl 2):S208–17



World Bank Group · 5 November 2024 English

As global efforts to build emergency-ready health systems intensify, the "Strategic Investment for Health System Resilience: A Three-Layer Framework" offers a practical investment framework and diverse country cases to guide …

of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics. He holds a BA in philosophy and physics from


Impact on Urban Health · 4 November 2024 English

research comprehensively reflected perspectives across the sector, and in acknowledgement of the The report focused on the perspectives of influence of the CIMF industry, a representative individuals working in the …

Disparities in Healthy Growth and Development’, *Pediatrics*, 144(4), pp. 1-3. Available at: https://doi


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 1 November 2024 English

We estimate the causal effect of online sports betting on households' investment, spending, and debt management decisions using household transaction data and a staggered difference-in-differences framework. Following legalization, sports betting …

risk behaviors among 8th-to 12th-grade students. Pediatrics 102:e23–e23. Statman, M. 2002. Lottery players/stock


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