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J Paediatr Child Health ; 57(7): 981-985, 2021 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34085347

ABSTRACT

Children and young people around the world face challenges to their health and wellbeing. In particular, in low- and middle-income countries they experience a higher burden of disease, exacerbated by global inequity limiting access to quality health care. According to the inverse care law, the availability of quality health care varies inversely to the need of the population, and hardworking health-care professionals in under-resourced countries may face impediments to continued education or subspecialty training. In line with the Sustainable Development Goals, collaborations have been developed between high-income and low- and-middle-income countries to address global disparities in health. These collaborations face challenges of high financial costs, difficulties creating long-term sustainable change, and with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, border closures preventing fly-in volunteers. In this paper, we describe the development of an innovative, paediatric-specific model of care for training and support between high- and low-income countries - Taking Paediatrics Abroad Ltd. Taking Paediatrics Abroad supports the development of mutually beneficial relationships between Australian paediatric health-care professionals and paediatric health-care professionals in developing countries and remote, underserved Australian Aboriginal communities. Since May 2020, there have been over 100 sessions covering a vast array of paediatric specialties. This article explores Taking Paediatrics Abroad's model of care, its implementation and challenges, and opportunities for the future.


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COVID-19 , Pediatrics , Adolescent , Australia , Child , Developing Countries , Humans , Pandemics , SARS-CoV-2
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Lancet Oncol ; 20(9): e493-e502, 2019 09.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31395474

ABSTRACT

Pacific island countries and territories (PICTs) face the challenge of a growing cancer burden. In response to these challenges, examples of innovative practice in cancer planning, prevention, and treatment in the region are emerging, including regionalisation and coalition building in the US-affiliated Pacific nations, a point-of-care test and treat programme for cervical cancer control in Papua New Guinea, improving the management of children with cancer in the Pacific, and surgical workforce development in the region. For each innovation, key factors leading to its success have been identified that could allow the implementation of these new developments in other PICTs or regions outside of the Pacific islands. These factors include the strengthening of partnerships within and between countries, regional collaboration within the Pacific islands (eg, the US-affiliated Pacific nations) and with other regional groupings of small island nations (eg, the Caribbean islands), a local commitment to the idea of change, and the development of PICT-specific programmes.


Subject(s)
Delivery of Health Care , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/epidemiology , Child , Female , Humans , Pacific Islands/epidemiology , Papua New Guinea/epidemiology , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/pathology , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/surgery , West Indies/epidemiology
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Pediatr Infect Dis J ; 36(2): 239-240, 2017 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27832020

ABSTRACT

In Tonga, pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is not a scheduled immunization. We identified all children in Tonga with invasive pneumococcal disease from 2010 to 2013. The average annual invasive pneumococcal disease incidence rate was 113/100,000 (<2 years), 50/100,000 (<5 years) and 25/100,000 (<15 years). The case fatality rate (<5 years) was 25%. The incidence rate and high case fatality rate indicate the need for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.


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Pneumococcal Infections/epidemiology , Streptococcus pneumoniae , Adolescent , Bacteremia , Child , Child, Preschool , Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Immunization Schedule , Incidence , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Meningitis, Pneumococcal , Retrospective Studies , Tonga/epidemiology
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