Now, #TechBiz4SickKids is aiming to raise $1+ million dollars a year to support its Precision Child Health (PCH) campaign, called ‘Heal the Future.’ With PCH, SickKids aims to diagnose faster, treat smarter, and predict better. Ambassadors are a group of leading changemakers in our co...
These children often have a difficult life filled with hospital appointments and strange professionals invading their homes. The siblings of these children may often be forgotten about or neglected, as the focus is on the sick child. The siblings have their own grief and bereavement and very ...
Concerns centred upon a lack of status being apportioned to the role. This included poor communica tion, not being permitted to use staff toilets or the staff room, authority being undermined and concerns about how to manage sick or injured children. Sharp (1994, p. 122) stressed that, ...
The reality of Daniela’s life is that she had been given to the children’s home when she was a sick newborn and had been loved and nursed back to health by a caregiver in the orphanage, who continued to have a primary caregiving relationship with her until she was 6-years old. Her...
There is a growing call to reduce environmental risk factors for children in LMICs and to provide children and parents in these places with the services th
Role playing / Real playing: How would you behave if you were a CEO and their child discussing climate action over dinner, a climate refugee is new at school and the students showing them around, a child with a social justice project trying to share that idea with a journalist? Question ...
Poor child growth and development outcomes stem from complex relationships encompassing biological, behavioral, social, and environmental conditions. However, there is a dearth of research on integrated approaches targeting these interwoven factors. The
The Children’s Cancer Unit is based in the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and every child in Northern Ireland who receives a cancer or complex blood disorder diagnosis will be treated here, regardless of where they come from.
Raffle running until March 4 will help relieve the emotional, financial and physical challenges faced by families with sick or injured children
Having lived experience of a mental health condition was associated with both using drugs or alcohol to cope and sick leave in our study. Qualitative research with researchers working on gender-based violence topics suggested that some researchers used alcohol as a means of coping with secondary ...