Chapter of Community Child Health

The Chapter of Community Child Health is committed to:

• supporting doctors with expertise or engagement in any or all of the domains of community child health, including child protection, child behaviour and development and child population health and
• will promote the merging of clinical practice with public health and ecological principles.

Members of the Chapter of Community Child Health share a view that a social (interactional, multifactorial, environmental) model of health and prevention is most relevant to contemporary child health issues. It is this complementary view to traditional paediatric medical care, which is important and must be sustained in the Paediatrics & Child Health Division.

The Chapter welcomes all doctors, from Australia and New Zealand, with expertise or engagement in Child Protection, Child Development and Child Population Health. It is vital to provide physicians practising in these areas with a sense of collegiality and peer support.

The Chapter is responsive to members' needs by making support and continuing education of Chapter members more central to the function of the Chapter, through its three Special Interest Groups. Advanced Trainees in Community Child Health and those undertaking the dual General Paediatrics/Community Child Health Training program and Overseas Trained Paediatricians undertaking assessment via RACP are granted automatic Membership of the Chapter.

For those medical practitioners who are not Fellows/Trainees of the College, or Overseas Trained Paediatricians undertaking RACP assessment, please complete the Application form below and send it with a full curriculum vitae to the Paediatrics & Child Health Divisional office.

Application for Membership.

2012 Chapter of Community Child Health Satellite Day

Agenda for the 2012 Annual General Meeting of the Chapter of Community Child Health

Draft minutes from the 2011 Annual General Meeting of the Chapter of Community Child Health

The Redevelopment of the Chapter of Community Child Health: Where to from here?

(July 2003). Revisited and endorsed again in May 2006.
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Chapter Chat

• September 2012 (PDF file: 1.34MB)
• December 2011 (PDF file: 3.45MB)
• March 2011 (PDF file: 1.11MB)
• June 2010 (PDF file: 670KB)
• August 2009 (PDF file: 1.71MB)
• September 2008 (PDF file: 739KB)

Special Interest Groups

1. Child Population Health
2. Child Development and Behaviour
3. Child Protection
   

Other Related Links

The Paediatric Society of New Zealand

Specialist Advisory Committee