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As we reflect on causes of death in our children, methods of prevention become critically important to research and implement. Research notes that millions of childhood injuries result in thousands of deaths. Death can be due to medical disease and considerable progress including prevention of death has been made in management of cancer and other conditions over the past century, especially in developed countries. It is also important to apply principles of management and prevention to consequences of aggression and chronic illness. As illustrated in this book, we must look at underlying issues, both medical and behavioural, in the physical and psychiatric health of our children. We should apply known principles of preventive medicine that are being researched in the 21st century to prevent needless deaths in our paediatric population. Prevention may arise from such understanding and application of known concepts with fewer paediatric deaths and fewer parents/families undergoing heart-breaking grieving processes.

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Author:   Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc ,  Donald E. Greydanus ,  Dustin C. Rowland, MS
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Weight:   0.938kg
ISBN:  

9781685074616

ISBN 10:   1685074618
Pages:   406
Publication Date:   01 April 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Dedication: Stewart E. Greydanus (1942-1947); Preface: Why do Children Die?; Death and Dying: Perspectives of Religious Thought; Death Before Birth: Issues of Pregnancy Termination; Prevention of Newborn Death: Newborn Screening; Perspectives on Newborn Palliative Care; Unintentional Death in Childhood; Pediatric Palliative Care in Congenital Heart Disease: A Case-Based Approach in Infants and Children; Sudden Cardiac Death in the Pediatric and Adolescent Population; Pediatric Mortality During Surgical Procedures: Epidemiologic and Psychosocial Considerations; Chronic Disease and the Dying Adolescent; Pediatric Suicide: Establishing A Basis for Probing Its Mysteries and Complexities; Self-Cutting and Suicide in Adolescents; Suicidality and the LGBT Youth: Tragic Underpinnings of Societal Insouciance, Impuissant Aesculapian Response and Implacable Sacerdotal Dogma; Fatal Child Abuse; Tragedy of Sibling Abuse: Convergence of Fiction, Research, and the Reality of Human Nature; Child Sexual Abuse Perspectives; Perspectives on Incest: A Perplexing Paradox Characterized by Destructive Betrayal of Trust; The Killing Fields on the Roads: Can We Protect the Teen Driver?; Introduction to Death, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Motor Vehicle Crashes in Children and Adolescents: A Historically Delayed Realization; Death, Injury and Motor Vehicle Crashes in Children and Adolescents: What Does the Future Hold?; Concepts of Aggression: Perspectives in the 21st Century; Psychosocial Adaptation to Chronic Illness and Disability; About the Editors; About the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine (WMED), Kalamazoo, Michigan USA; About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel.

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JJoav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc Professor of Pediatrics at the Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel, Kentucky Childrens Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States and Professor of Public Health at the Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States, the former Medical Director of the Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem and the Founder and Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel

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