Falling back to experience: retired paediatric professors as a solution to Europe’s child health care crisis?| JOURNAL OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
Vol. 65: SPECIAL ISSUE 4 - DICEMBER 2017 - The Human Capital of Age
Clinical Geriatrics - Reviews
Published: 2017-12-15
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Falling back to experience: retired paediatric professors as a solution to Europe’s child health care crisis?

European Paediatric Association/Union of National European Paediatric Societies and Associations (EPA/UNEPSA), Berlin, Germany; Children’s Hospital, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Department of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, USA
Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
Child health Number of pediatricians Emeriti professors of pediatric Lack of integration New strategies

Abstract

Background. Human resources of child health care service systems have a major impact on child health.
However, there is no formula available to determine the right number of paediatricians with the right age and
skill mix in a given country. Several countries in Europe have reported a shortage of paediatricians at a time
when general child health care is in crisis for a multitude of reasons.
Aims. To study the role of emeriti professors of paediatrics in children health care.
Results. Our article presents the results of a European survey showing that retired professors tend to play a
marginal role in the academic life of university children’s hospitals of the majority of 28 representative European
countries.
Discussion. This lack of integration contrasts with the potentials of retired professors of paediatrics concerning
knowledge and experience in supporting child health care services and in developing strategies for coping
with the crisis of child health care.

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J. Ehrich

European Paediatric Association/Union of National European Paediatric Societies and Associations (EPA/UNEPSA), Berlin, Germany; Children’s Hospital, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

N. Nwaneri

Department of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, USA

N.G. De Santo

Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy

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Ehrich, J., Nwaneri, N. and De Santo, N. 2017. Falling back to experience: retired paediatric professors as a solution to Europe’s child health care crisis?. JOURNAL OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS. 65, 04 Special (Dec. 2017), 318-324.
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