James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2001

TM5534:03

*NOTE* Tropical Paediatrics

Townsville

Prerequisites: Medical practitioner or senior experienced RN

March intensive block mode.

Available to medical practitioners and experienced clinical nurses.

Staff: Assoc. Professor J Whitehall.

This subject gives special emphasis to exotic tropical diseases and those affecting Indigenous Australian children in remote areas; demographic and epidemiological characteristics of children in tropical countries; determinants of child health in tropical climates; prevention and management of major childhood tropical diseases; includes examination of major helminthic, protozoan, rickettsial, bacterial, viral, fungal, nutritional, psychiatric and social diseases. The subject primarily focuses on exotic tropical diseases and health care in low resource settings. However, several days of the subject examine Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander paediatric health issues such as haematuria, rheumatic fever and anaemia; human rights and child health.

Learning Objectives:

  1. describe the determinants and patterns of child health in tropical regions;
  2. describe the epidemiology aetiology, prevention and management of a range of major tropical illnesses affecting children in tropical regions and affecting Aboriginal children;
  3. critically analyse human rights issues relating to child health in tropical countries.

Assessment by two examinations, in-course presentation, post-course project.