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Child Friendly Home Environment – Potential for Multidisciplinary Working Partnerships
- Dr. Lalith Senarathna
Child Friendly Home Environment Potential for Multidisciplinary - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Child Friendly Home Environment Potential for Multidisciplinary - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Child Friendly Home Environment Potential for Multidisciplinary Working Partnerships Dr. Lalith Senarathna Rajarata University of Sri Lanka Rajarata University of Sri Lanka Child Friendly Home Environment Children growing up in an
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Child Friendly Home Environment
Children growing up in an environment that is physically safe, emotionally secure and psychologically enabling.
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Physical Environment
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Burden of Child Injury– Sri Lanka
Source: Maternal and Child and Mortality Surveillance of the Family Health Bureau, Sri Lanka
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Impact on Child Health and Growth
Impact
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Injuries
Prolonged hospitalization Increased health cost Psychological effect Loss of income Loss of schooling Physical health
- Self esteem
- Quality of life
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Psychosocial Environment
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Child friendly home environment
Psychosocial environment Physical environment
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Potential disciplines to collaborate
Public Health
Social Anthropology Child Psychiatry & Psychology Paediatric Community Medicine Health Promotion Epidemiology Education
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Partnerships
- Local
– Community groups / Organizations – Government agencies/Ministries
- Ministry of Health
- Ministry of Child Care
- Ministry of Education
– Non-government Sector
- NGOs
- International
– Academic institutes – Funding agencies
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