Community Pediatrics

Abstract

A NEW term, community pediatrics, is abroad in the land. In the first decade after World War II the then new term was comprehensive pediatrics, which was applied to a variety of new pediatric educational and care programs. The current shift to the term "community" represents more than a change of fashion. Comprehensive pediatrics is concerned with provision of health services to meet all the medical needs of a given child who comes for medical attention. It is patient oriented rather than disease oriented. The new concept in community pediatrics, and its major distinction from comprehensive pediatrics, adds to this . . .