YEAP BLOG

August 2023 CHILDREN'S HEALTH | 18 AUGUST 2023  “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” — John F. Kennedy Most individuals reading this article have been fortunate to experience a healthy upbringing and have had enough...

May 2023 INTERNATIONAL NURSING DAY | 12 MAY 2023  “One thing is certain, patient care concerns us all!So, we implore you, dear doctors: celebrate your ladies and gentlemen with the lamp, when they make their rounds through the children's hospitals day in and...

APRIL 2023 WORLD IMMUNIZATION WEEK  “WORLD IMMUNIZATION WEEK In 2023 a lot still revolves around Coronavirus pandemic and the new available COVID-19 vaccines.But it is still important to stay on track with basic immunization!" During the pandemic, vaccination...

March 2023 Patient Safety Awareness Week   March 12th – 18th marked Patient Safety Awareness Week. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that the occurrence of adverse events due to unsafe care is likely one of the 10 leading causes of death and...

February 2023 Child and family needs in pediatric palliative care - how can physicians and trainees assist?  INTRODUCTION According to the World Health Organization (WHO) palliative care is defined as “an approach that improves the quality of...

January 2023 Mental health problems of Ukrainian children in terms of Ukrainian-Russian warThe situation We would like to dedicate this post to World Mental Health Day which takes place on 10th of October and to raise problems of mental state of...

OCTOBER 2022 Children on the move - 3 years onIn 2019 the Young European Academy of Paediatrics (YEAP) authored a blog on children on the move, advocating for European policymakers to prioritise an inclusive approach for these children from both a...

JULY 2022 Advocating for breastfeeding training amongst paediatricians and paediatric trainees THE SITUATION For the World Breastfeeding Week, Young EAP and EAP would like to promote the importance of breastfeeding training amongst healthcare...

may 2022 Obesity: a key public health challenge of the 21st century THE SITUATION Childhood obesity presents a major public health challenge, with the worldwide prevalence having increased more than 8-fold over the last 4 decades (1). It is estimated...

january 2022 Burnout in European Paediatric Training    THE SITUATION Despite the opportunities afforded by a career in paediatrics, there are significant problems around recruitment to, and retention in the specialty. Across the UK and Europe,...

SEPTEMBER 2021 Working and Learning Conditions of Paediatric Residents across Europe,,, THE SITUATION At the moment, different countries across Europe have different approaches to specialty postgraduate training (1, 2). Paediatric trainees’ pathways...

april 2021 Paediatric training programs across Europe EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND AIM OF THE REFLECTIONS Paediatric training programs across European countries has been and will be subject of intense debate within the Young EAP. Driving forces behind this...

JULY 2020 Interconnected Carethe situation Interconnected care has for some time now made its way to the minds of people thinking about the future of modern healthcare. The concept of interconnected care has become widely used when policymakers and...

JUNE 2020 Patient Involvement in Child HealthcareThree perspectives on future collaboration and areas for improvementthe situation The webinar on patient involvement held in September 2019 by the Young EAP (European Academy of Paediatrics) aimed to...

COVID-19 SERIES (#9) SARS-CoV-2 in GermanyThe first case of COVID-19 in Germany was reported on 28th of January 2020. A man from Bavaria (Starnberg) had work-related contact with a Chinese colleague who is assumed to be the source of his infection....

COVID-19 SERIES (#8) The COVID-19 response in AustriaOn 25th of February 2020, Austria confirmed the first two cases of  COrona VIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), a couple from Lombardy, Italy. (1) In the following days more patients were tested positive...

COVID-19 SERIES (#7) The Effects of the Pandemic on our Way of Life There are so many talks about coronavirus and COVID-19 around that I would like to speak about something else. I am not going to share the experience of my country in fighting with...

COVID-19 SERIES (#6) Message from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health President MESSAGE FROM RCPCH PRESIDENT, 24 APRIL  Professor Russell Viner's weekly blog to members looks at how we protect and plan delivery of crucial paediatric...

COVID-19 SERIES (#5) Iceland’s data on the infectivity of children cross-infection risk At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was uncertainty with regards to how badly children would be affected by the novel coronavirus. We feared the worst...

COVID-19 SERIES (#4) Critical Ethical Decisions on the Frontline - Learning from the Adults Italy is facing a massive burden from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Since Feb 21, 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 was recorded in...

COVID-19 SERIES (#1) SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children - Review of the Current Situation “This is a time for facts, not fear. This is a time for rationality, not rumours. This is a time for solidarity, not stigma” – Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,...

COVID-19 SERIES (#3) Suffer the Little Children?This is the fourth in a series of Dr. Rob Ross Russell's brief musings on aspects of the COVID-19 crisis. They are all my personal views and should not for a moment be interpreted as advice or dogma –...

COVID-19 SERIES (#2) The Changing Face of Medicine   Pediatrics, the art of healing children, is undergoing a tremendous transformation in the COVID 19 days. The basic elements of the profession – listening to the mother, inspecting the child...

February 2020 Rare Diseases, Everyday EffortsFebruary 29th is Rare Disease Day. EAP has decided to dedicate this month’s blog to the challenges of rare diseases in paediatrics across Europe. the situation In Europe, a rare disease is defined as one...

January 2020 Towards the harmonisation of paediatric training in EuropeJanuary 24th is the International Day of Education, so it seemed fitting that EAP has decided to dedicate this month’s blog to the educational challenges of paediatric training...

November - December 2019 Access to medicines for childrenWhat’s the situation and how does this affect children? Millions of children still die every year before the age of 5, worldwide, due to treatable conditions. Poor access to essential medicines...

October 2019 Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis: The futute of child health in EuropeThis month, EAP and Young EAP are honoured to have the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, authoring a special blog article on the...

september 2019 Cross-border research in europe: we can and should do moreThe situation Despite ongoing improvements in child health across Europe, it still matters where you live in Europe as a child or an adolescent. Considerable differences between...

August 2019 Young EAP august 2019 blog: Εducation in vaccinology – a crucial tool to fight the vaccination crisis «I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.» – Dr. Jonas SalkTHE SITUATION Vaccination is widely...

July 2019 Adolescent medicine and health – a training challenge for europe? “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”  – Franklin D. Roosevelt A safe and successful transition from childhood into...

June 2019 Protecting children on the move – the pediatricians’ perspectiveThe situation ‘History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another’ Ellsworth Huntington, Professor of Geography at Yale University,...

MAY 2019 Compassionate care in PediatricsThe situation Access to high quality healthcare is a key human right recognized by the European Union, its Institutions and the citizens of Europe. Any high quality, high performing healthcare system relies on...

April 2019 ‘Ethics in paediatrics’ challenges for young paediatricians The situation Paediatricians will face ethical dilemmas in their everyday practice. There can be disagreement between children/young people and their parents over treatment; cases...

March 2019 How artificial intelligence can revolutionize medicine and pediatrics in the EUThe Situation Exciting news from the European Commission: Europe wants to stay ahead on artificial intelligence (AI) applications for medicine and aims to...

February 2019 "No more pain" and "no more loss" for children with cancer and their familiesThe situation Globally, a child dies of cancer every 3 minutes.  Every year in Europe, more than 6,000 children and young people die from cancer and more than...

January 2019 High value in health care – how can we improve value for patients? The situation How is high value in health care defined? The health care sector is characterised by conflicting interests that often vary based on the stakeholder;...

November - December 2018 “Healthy child, healthy world” day – why we must keep advocating for children’s (health) rightsOn 20th November, we celebrated ‘Healthy Child Healthy World’ Day, a new initiative designed to raise awareness of every child’s...

October 2018 Raising awareness on AMR, a growing health threat for children and adults alike World Antibiotic Awareness Week takes place on 12-18 November, with the 2018 European Antibiotic Awareness Day taking place on 15 November 2018. On these...

September 2019 Cleaner air for healthier childrenIn October/November 2018 WHO will convene the ‘First Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health’, which willbring authorities, policy makers, health professionals and other relevant entities...

June 2018 Childhood obesity – a global public health concernIntroduction Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. Last year, the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO) reported that the number...

may 2018 Protecting children from tobaccoThe situation Exposure to SHS leads to an estimated 166.000 child deaths each year worldwide, with most of those deaths resulting from lower respiratory diseases. Eighty-six percent (86%) of youth in Europe...

March 2018 How artificial intelligence can revolutionize medicine and pediatrics in the EUAcross Europe we have been facing the problem of decreasing immunisation coverage that undermines the progress made towards eliminating specific infectious...

The situation of junior health professionals in PolandIn Poland, strikes by health care professionals have become an almost annual occurrence. Last June, junior doctors demonstrated against poor wages and quality of training and a lack of regulation...

Brexit and Health “Brexit is bad for health, and doctors should say so”. Neena Modi, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in the UK, argued in a recent personal view in the British Medical Journal that leaving the EU...