Category: ISSOP Position statements

“The International Society of Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP), i n concert with collaborating national and international societies of pediatrics (www.ISSO P.org), condemns in the most robust terms possible American officials’ attempts at the World Health Assembly to stop global collaboration to protect, promote and support breastmilk feeding. Breastmilk feeding is recognized as among the most effective health promoting measures to advance infant and child health. (https://www.issop.org/2008/02/01/essop–position-statem ent-2/)   In combination with the separation of children from their parents at the US border with...

“As the only global organization advancing the principles and practice of social pediatrics and child rights, and the source of the Budapest Declaration on the Rights, Health, and Well-being of Children on the Move, we, jointly with other national and international organizations (see www.ISSOP.org ), call on the United States to stop the barbaric abuse of children at the US-Mexican border.” => read the full response “Como organización profesional de referencia mundial que promueve los principios y la práctica de la pediatría social y los derechos del niño, y generadora de la Declaración de Budapest sobre los Derechos, la...

Addressing inequities in child health and development – towards social justice Authors: Nick Spencer, Shanti Raman, Bernadette O’Hare, Giorgio Tamburlini On behalf of ISSOP The June 2018 update of the ISSOP position statement 1 on Child health inequities, 11 years after the first version, has updated data and expands on several aspects.  

Read ISSOP press release  endorsed by: Association for Childhood Education International Associazione Culturale Pediatri. Italy Canadian Pediatric Society Catalan Pediatric Society Chilean Pediatric Society Colombian Group of Social Pediatrics European Confederation of Primary Care Paediatricians Facultad Latinamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Latin American School of Social Sciences), Argentina Icelandic Pediatric Society International Child Health Group of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Maternal and Child Health Advocacy...