Child & Adolescent Health Care

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August 2008 Issue #23


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' John'


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AWCH Conference

 

Children's Health Conference

Health Care for Kids

The People, The Map,
The Measure

17 to 18 NOVEMBER 2008

Manly Pacific Hotel
SYDNEY

AWCH and CHA are joining forces to highlight the importance of advocating strongly for the healthcare needs of children and young people in Australasia

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Children's Health Conference

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Children’s Hospitals Australasia (CHA) and the Association for the Wellbeing of Children in Healthcare (AWCH) are joining forces to highlight the importance of advocating strongly for the healthcare needs of children and young people in Australasia.

The conference will focus on three major themes:

The People, The Map and The Measure

The themes we have chosen will enable a detailed exploration of:

  • ‘the people’ – in particular the shared concerns among health professionals and the families struggling with serious health issues;
  • ‘the map’ – contemporary trends and developments in healthcare
    practice, policy and environments; and
  • ‘the measure’ – how we can best monitor, evaluate and improve
    the safety and quality of health care delivered to children and
    young people.

We also want to explore these themes in the context of common
elements across all themes:

  • Early intervention
  • Culturally sensitive and appropriate services
  • Working in partnerships
  • Research, evaluation and continuous improvement

The Conference Is For:

  • Health professionals from Paediatric and Child Health Nursing, Medical & Hospital Practice, Paediatric and General Practice, Community Health, Play & other creative therapies, Mental Health, Psychology, Allied Health, Child Protection
  • Young People, Parents and Carers
  • Support Groups, Volunteers and Children’s Charities
  • Practitioners specialising in early childhood, youth, education and disability services
  • Professionals in Administration, Research, Policy, Safety & Quality Child health practice from: Government, Universities, Community Services, Health services, Child Protection Services, Management and Planning

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Christine Bennett is the current Chair of the Hospitals and Health Reform Commission, Chief Medical Officer at MBF and formerly a paediatrician, with experience in the health care industry as a specialist clinician, strategist and planner and chief executive in both the public and private sectors.

Hugh Mackay is a psychologist, social researcher and the author of eleven books. He has made a life-long study of the attitudes and behaviours of the Australian community and is one of the pioneers of qualitative social research in this country, having undertaken his first experiments with qualitative methodology in 1962. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He writes a weekly column for the Sun-Herald and the West Australian, and occasionally for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He is also a frequent broadcaster on ABC radio.

Associate Professor Colleen Hayward is Manager, Kulunga Research Network Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. She is a senior Noongar woman with family ties throughout the South-West of Western Australia. She has an extensive negotiation, advocacy, policy and management background in a range of government and non-government areas and was previously deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Aboriginal Legal Service of WA. Other experience covers areas including health, education, training, employment, housing.

Dr. Charles J. Homer is a founder and the Chief Executive Officer of the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ), Inc., a non profit organization focused exclusively on improving quality of health care for children. Dr Homer is also a pediatrician and serves as an associate professor of the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard University School of Public Health and an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

Jeremy Medlock is nineteen, currently studying in his second year of Animal and Veterinary Bioscience at the Univeristy of Sydney. He was diagnosed with cancer on his sixteenth birthday in 2004, and spent 2005 undergoing chemotherapy at The Children's Hospital at Westmead.


Prof. Kim Oates is a paediatrician with particular interests in child development, child protection and hospital administration. He held the foundation Douglas Burrows Chair of Paediatric and Child Health at the University of Sydney from 1985 to 1997. He was Chief Executive of the Children's Hospital at Westmead from 1997 to 2006.

Dr Karen Wayman is Director of Family-Centered Care at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, and in the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics California USA.

The Convenors:

The Association for the Wellbeing of Children in Healthcare (AWCH)

AWCH is a national not-for-profit organisation of parents, professionals and community members who work together to ensure the emotional and social needs of children, adolescents and their families are recognised and met within hospitals and the health care system in Australia.

 

Children’s Hospitals Australasia (CHA)


CHA is a not-for-profit organisation that supports children’s hospitals and health services to achieve excellence in clinical care, through advocacy, networking and the sharing of knowledge & evidence underpinning best practice.

 

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