A report on the pediatric education seminar Western Pacific Region, World Health Organization Manila, February 13-18, 1967

ABSTRACT

The regional office for Western Pacific Region, covering 14 countries, has felt the need to investigate and discuss present methods of pediatric teaching and to find out ways of improving pediatric education to meet the needs of these countries. As a WHO release states (WHO-WPI Jan. 67) "The plight of children in a developing countries is still a grim picture ! Disease and death among infants and children in the tropics are still very high, due to the combination of malnutrition, bad hygienve and faulty environment which create a favorable ground for infections and parasitic diseases. Ignorance, poverty and certain harmful traditional practices are also to blame. (Author)