Evolution of the Conceptions of Medical and Social Care in Childhood

Abstract

1. — The principles of medical management and social care for children evaluated according to changes in the conceptions of human life and human health in different social systems.

2. — The main principle of contemporary children care is based upon the fact that this care can’t be successful unless the measures are not applied both in medical and social fields in mothers i. e. in early pregnancy, even from the conception.

3. — Basing upon the fact that the process of development and growth of the child is to be continuous without breaking, the chid protection has not to be interrupted; it must continuously involve every period of human development beginning even before the foetal life and lasting up to the end of adolescent period.

4. — According to nowadays conception of children care, it has to consider the extent of menaces in every period of life. The danger is the greatest both from medical and social point of view in new-borns and infants and gradually decreases toward the adolescence.

5. — Both the social and medical care can only be successful if it involves all members of the family (not only the mother) using all known measures of protection: hygienic, economic, financial, educational, juridical, technical and psychological.

6. — The children care in institutions (children homes and nurseries) is considered as a necessary mischief and it didn’t provide as good results as that one exerted in the bosom of family.

7. — The measures and activity of children care may give only good results if the parents participate in it as active and helping members of community.

8. — We must use all contemporary measures in children and mother care to convince the parents (through medical education) in usefulness and benefit of it for their children.

9. — The above proposed measures for medical and social children and mother care, may successfully be done if they are supported by the community; it may not be the object beneficial societies and their action.

10. — The engagement of society in planning, dotting and acting in children and mother care doesn’t make free the parents from their duties for their own children.