Dear CHIFA members
The latest edition of the e-bulletin<https://issop.org/cmdownloads/issop-e-bulletin-no-67-january-2024/> of the International Society for Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP) for Jan 2024 is now available and the contents list is below
1. Introduction
1.1 Message from Jeff Goldhagen. ISSOP President
2. Meetings and news
2.1 Evacuation of children in Japan following the earthquake 2.2 Earthquake and the meaning of play for children
2.3 UNCRC becomes law in Scotland
3. International Organizations
3.1 PHASFI Community of Practice
3.2 High Level Meeting for Investment in Primary Health at the United Nations Assembly 3.3 Course on Commercial Determinants of Health, UFRO, Temuco, Chile.
4. Current controversy
4.1 How war impacts climate change and the environment
4.2 Measles cases in Europe rise 30-fold
4.3 A global review of penalties for abortion-related offences in 182 countries
5. CHIFA – IPA - ISSOP/INRICH – S&WC reports
5.1 CHIFA report
5.2. ISSOP/INRICH report
5.3 Street and Working Children report
6. Publications
6.1 Gaza, armed conflict and child health
7. Topics in Social Pediatrics
7.1. Film review One Life
7.2 Social prescribing: Moving pediatric care upstream to improve child health and wellbeing and
address child health inequities
7.3 Arts and mind: introducing Lisa Kristine, Humanitarian Photographer
8. Climate change update
8.1 Impact of higher income countries on child health in lower income countries from a climate change perspective
8.2 Speaking out about the health impacts of air pollution
Tony Waterston
CHIFA profile:
Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA (HIFA's sister forum on child health and rights). www.chifa.org He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group.
www.hifa.org/people/steering-group
www.hifa.org/support/members/tony
Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk
