Letter To The Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian F. Poets
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Child Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Prone Position ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The Way

The data presented by Johnson et al suggest that the recommendation to place infants on their back or side, issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1992, has so far had very little effect on the way parents put their infants to sleep. This is particularly disappointing as recent data from Europe and New Zealand demonstrate that child care practices can indeed be influenced very effectively. For example, in Avon, United Kingdom, the proportion of infants usually sleeping in the prone position fell from 59% in 1988 to 2% in 1992.

PROCEEDINGS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-164
Author(s):  
William W. Belford
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
National Council ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
White House ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Amount Of Knowledge

AFTER SOME 30 years a member of the Academy and 6 years on the Executive Board, I come to this occasion very much aware of the great honor given me. Those before me have given us their concepts and philosophy of pediatrics and of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and what it has done. I am very humble in my comments about things as they appear to me. In the lives of all of us there is always something to be done—unfinished business. There is unfinished business for the American Academy of Pediatrics too. The last 10 years seem to have increased the number of factors and items of this unfinished business. There is so much to be done for the welfare of children! It is encouraging, though sometimes confusing, that so many groups are interested in the welfare of children besides pediatricians. It is good that the Fellows of the Academy takes part in the activities of these other organizations, for many of these lack pediatric guidance. The Academy's official liaison representatives to these groups are appreciated and we give them our thanks for their unselfish and outstanding efforts. It is evident that this phase of the work in child care will increase, and pediatricians must have an increasing role in the work of these organizations which are interested in various aspects of child health and welfare. The National Council of Organizations for Children and Youth now numbers 596 organizations as members. The recent White House Conference on Children and Youth was a huge affair! It was quite evident that there was a vast amount of knowledge unusued though known to one group but not realized or suspected to be available by others.

Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 952-953
Author(s):  
Samuel Livingston ◽  
Wulfred Berman ◽  
Lydia L. Pauli
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Letter To The Editor

We were stunned to read in the reply (Pediatrics, 52:754, 1973) by the Committee on Drugs of the American Academy of Pediatrics to our letter, Amphetamines in Epilepsy, that their "thorough" search of the medical literature failed to elicit any documentation of the value of amphetamines in epilepsy. A cursory glance at the literature would at least reveal publications by more than 30 eminent physicians, including Carter, Eisenberg, Gastaut, Glaser, Goldensohn, Lennox, Schmidt and Yahr, in addition to our 28 articles, relative to the use of amphetamines in the management of epilepsy (efficacy and/or alleviation of anticonvulsant-induced drowsiness [references will be supplied upon request]).

Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 923-923
Author(s):  
Robert L. Brent
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Susceptible Population ◽  
Important Decision ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Orderly Transition

The suggestion of the Infectious Disease Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics virtually to eliminate vaccinia immunization in this country is an important decision. Frequently important decisions are made unilaterally without laying the legal and political groundwork for an orderly transition from the old to the new status. The transition is already underway to make the U.S.A. a population susceptible to smallpox. Should we not consider more carefully: (1) The present policies in Russia, China, and other nations with regard to their plans for creating a susceptible population.

Policy of the Academy on Day Care: Some Doubts I. From Indiana

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-123
Author(s):  
Robert M. Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Executive Committee ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
Daycare Centers ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
General Tone

The policy statement on day care released in Pediatrics has been discussed at length by the Executive Committee of the Indiana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. It is understood that it is necessary on the part of the American Academy of Pediatrics to make such a policy statement regarding daycare centers. One does, however, become somewhat concerned regarding the general tone and philosophy of the statement. It is felt that it mainly glosses over the fact that, for most children, child care and guidance are best given in the homes by the families.

Hazards of Baby Powder

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
HOWARD C. MOFENSON ◽  
THOMAS R. CARACCIO ◽  
SHARON OKUN ◽  
JOSEPH GREENSHER
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Progressive Decrease ◽  
Recent Letter ◽  
Data Table ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Community Population ◽  
Ventilator Therapy

To the Editor.— In a recent letter to the editor, Cotton and Davidson1 have brought the hazards of baby powder aspiration to the attention of the medical community. We have been monitoring episodes of possible powder inhalation and ingestion in our community (population 3 million) since 1980, when two infants were hospitalized [See table in the PDF file] for powder aspiration and one required ventilator therapy for two days. Our recent data (Table) shows a progressive decrease in the number of possible inhalations and ingestion episodes since 1981 when our article2 was published in Pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatrics publicized the hazard of baby powder.

The Science Behind the American Public Health Association/American Academy of Pediatrics National Health and Safety Guidelines for Child-Care Programs

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 1101-1104
Author(s):  
Susan S. Aronson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Child Care ◽  
American Academy ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
American Public Health Association ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Health Association

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE APHA/AAP STANDARDS In 1992, the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published the long-awaited Caring for Our Children—National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs.1 This publication was the product of a 4-year effort involving many experts in child health and safety and day-care providers. The standards document provides a national consensus on approaches to reducing diseases and injury and promoting prevention among children and providers in group-care settings. Consumer protection initiatives are needed because market-place forces are inadequate to ensure a health environment for children in child care. Over the past two decades, a growing number of investigators have documented the increased occurrence of infectious diseases2-4 and injuries,5-7 and missed opportunities for health protection and promotion in child care.8 Despite the tendency to focus on reports of negative health outcomes, children and families thrive in early childhood programs that provide safe, nurturing care and developmentally appropriate education. Day-to-day excellence in child care depends on committed, well-educated care givers who work in a child-friendly and staff-friendly environment. In the US, good child care is limited. Few parents can afford the full cost of care. Most lack the knowledge, skills, or objectivity to critically evaluate the care they choose for their children. Convenience, availability, and affordability motivate parents when they choose child care. Parents are pressured to meet occupational expectations, and tend to overlook significant risks in their children's child-care arrangements. Even parents who are pediatricians (who are expected to be well-versed in child development, health, and safety) ignore hazards and poor quality when rating convenient and available child-care arrangements (Aronson S, unpublished data).

Letter To The Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1041-1042
Author(s):  
Charles M. Schlossman
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
Title Page ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Letter To The Editor

I wish to protest the recent change of the format of the first page of Pediatrics, from the traditional heading of the journal with the seal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, to the present format which I find esthetically quite disturbing and unappealing. I wish to request that the title page be changed back to its previous format.

THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-564
Author(s):  
WM. C. BLACK
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
American Medicine ◽  
The Common ◽  
American Children ◽  
Michigan Avenue ◽  
Fellow Member

I can draw no other conclusion from this report than that the results of our survey, with which nearly every one of us cooperated wholeheartely and honestly, are immediately being perverted, distorted, twisted, and prostituted to the frank, bold, shameless, support of an idealogy as foreign to everything which has gone to make American medicine what it is today—to make America what she is today—as were the tactics and philosophy of Hitler and Mussolini. This report, which would picture the medical care of American children as grossly inadequate, can only be drawn by comparing our present real status with an ideal, unreal, Utopian, starry-eyed-dreamer's view of a never-yet-attained state of perfection. The real fact of the excellence of life for America's children and the enormous expansion of America's child care compared with that of any other country is completely ignored! The authors of this report must be either stupid, or visionary, and our Executive Board, which approved the report, must suffer from one or both of the same disastrous defects. It is up to us, the common members of the American Academy of Pediatrics, to make ourselves heard in the high places of our organization immediately and with such vigor and unanimity that this report in its entirety will be disapproved and heartily condemned, and another committee appointed which will approach this problem realistically. The approval of this damnable report by the Executive Board of the American Academy of Pediatrics places us squarely in the disgraceful, unenviable, and intolerable position of being the first organized group of reputable and honorable American physicians to endorse officially a report and recommendations which are as unAmerican as the machinations of the Kremlin. This insult to ourselves, to our fellow American Physicians, to this great free nation of ours—this desecration of LIBERTY must be promptly, decisively, and completely wiped from our record or I, for one, shall resign from the Organization. Fellow member of the once American Academy of Pediatrics, we have been most disgracefully betrayed! For all of you who see the full and hideously dangerous implications of this report I suggest the following procedures: (1) Write your opinion immediately to your District Chairman, to our President, or both, demanding an immediate emergency meeting of our Executive Board to rescind its approval of the report and then pass a strong resolution of total condemnation. (2) Send a copy of your letter to me and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons will give nation wide publicity to the tabulated results. (3) Inform your colleagues (members and non-members of the Academy) of the nature of this report, discuss it, and publicize as widely as you can its total condemnation. For those of you who may not sense the full importance of the report I append a bibliography for your further study and enlightenment. Obtain and read this material promptly, then send in your letters as soon as possible. You may receive promptly the entire bibliography (except books 7 and 8) from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, 360 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, at a cost of $1.35. For those of you who will not think or act I can do nothing except to hope your numbers are few and that your awakening will not be long delayed.

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