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Child healthcare in Europe, local diversities and collective potentials: A study of the European Paediatric Association/Union of National European Paediatric Societies and Associations

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Department of Pediatrics, Scientific Institute ‘Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza’, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy

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European Pediatric Association (EPA-UNEPSA), Union of National European Pediatric Societies and Associations, Berlin, Germany

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Paediatric Clinic, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iuliu Hatieganu, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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Romanian Society of Social Pediatrics, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

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Department of Paediatrics, Trinity College Dublin, National Children’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Turk Arch Pediatr 2020; 55: Supplement S1-S3
DOI: 10.14744/TurkPediatriArs.2020.80106
Read: 742 Downloads: 451 Published: 26 November 2020

This introductory article presents the project developed by the EPA-UNEPSA on child healthcare in Europe, emphasizing the role of local diversities as collective potentials. The EPA-UNEPSA is strongly convinced that an effective cooperation among European countries is based on the acknowledgement that diversity is a factor of strength, and not of weakness, and that such a factor may create the basis of an effective cooperation in all fields of public interest. Since its foundation in 1975, EPA-UNEPSA has worked to improve child healthcare and to strength the cooperation of children’s caretakers in Europe. The studies published in this volume pursue this line of thought, in the belief that contributing to the efforts of creating an effective platform for cooperation and a multidisciplinary approach to common issues in public health may reduce fragmentation of paediatrics and tackle the legal, economic, and organisational challenges of child healthcare in Europe.

Cite this article as: Mantovani MP, Lucian Pop T, Hoey H. Child healthcare in Europe, local diversities and collective potentials: A study of the European Paediatric Association/Union of National European Paediatric Societies and Associations. Turk Pediatri Ars 2020; 55(Suppl 1): S1–S3

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