The denial of pain in the child is an ancestral habit and not yet abandoned. Countless testimonies and the procedures used by those who have the duty, if not professional at least ethical, to control pain prove it. It is our objective to carry out an informal assessment of current attitudes and behaviour towards pain in children and to seek consensus on the procedures to be adopted.
The IAC, always at the forefront of humanization in the treatment of Children, publishes this useful and practical guide as a tool for the day to day of the operatives who are involved in the fight against pain in Paediatrics. This guide suggests methods for assessing, measuring and recording pain, as well as proposing therapeutic plans for pharmacological and non-pharmacological multimodal analgesia.
This publication was born in the Humanization sector of the IAC’s Child Care Services. Its aims are to characterize human resources as well as to identify and characterize the reception/care conditions that support the care of young people in Health Centers. It studies the attitudes and behaviour of professionals confronted with pain in children and the specific procedures of primary health care. Click to read.
Publication of the Minutes from the Meeting with the same title organized by the IAC at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in January 1996. More than 3 dozen contributions aided a diagnosis of the situation on Humanization in the field of child and young people care in Portuguese health services. It also contributed to dissemination of the European Charter for Children in Hospitals.
This guide was created in the Humanization sector of the IAC’s Child Care Services and was financed by the GlaxoSmithkline Foundation for Health Sciences. Its aim is to provide information on the national reality and facilitate reflection and identification of the necessary changes, both in terms of behaviour and professional practices. The 335 pages of this book are divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, 37 professionals express their opinion on various aspects of reception in hospitals; the second chapter includes the study “Children’s Reception and Stay in Health Services”; the third one contains 104 cards featuring Portuguese hospitals, of which 91 receive and host children. Click to read.
