Vol. 46 No. especial 5 dez (2022): Child health: integration between teaching, research, service and management

The Presentation of the special issue of Saúde em Debate ‘Child Health: integration between teaching, research, service and management’, signed by the guest scientific editors, begins with the poetry of Gabriela Mistral, ‘Your name is today’:

“We are guilty of many mistakes and faults
but our worst crime is the abandonment of children
denying them the source of life
Many of the things we need can wait.
The child cannot
Now is the time when their bones are forming
their blood is too
and their senses are developing
To them, we cannot answer ‘tomorrow’
Their name is today."

The poetry of the 1945 Nobel Prize winner for Literature calls for the emergence of caring for children. It was pressing in the middle of the last century; it is urgent today. No wonder, one of the first measures announced by the transition team of president-elect (in 2022) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was the priority in the recovery of children’s vaccination coverage rates – a topic that has been heavily neglected in the last four years in Brazil. [...] The issue of this publication on children’s health meets this process and becomes a voice that responds to the cry: ‘Their name is today’, especially if we highlight children’s health, an area that has gone through many challenges.”

Topics covered: Child’s Handbook and occupational therapy; Brazilian Amazon Primary Health Care professionals on maternal and child health; Registration of infant feeding and clinical complications in the Children’s Handbook; Health promotion in early childhood: weaving local networks; Vaccination Coverage in children aged zero to 12 months in Piauí, Brazil; Interprofessionality, training, and collaborative work in the context of family health; Family relationships of children in situations of vulnerability and violence; Vulnerability of children with special health needs; Socioeconomic determinants on the motor development of infants in Manaus, Amazonas; Parental practices and knowledge about children's motor skills acquisitions; Frenectomies performed in the context of the SUS after mandatory tongue test; Family-centered home motor intervention on the functioning of individuals with Duchenne; Repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on Elementary School children; Sociodemographic and pharmacoepidemiology profile of HIV infected children; Methylphenidate prescriptions in a pediatric neurology outpatient clinic; The child’s body as a receptacle of physical violence; Sexual abuse against children: strategies in Primary Health Care in a municipality in the metropolitan region of Recife; Child care in the prison contexto; Childcare in the SUS; child health training in the Brazilian Amazon; Multicampi Saúde da Criança: extension contributions to medical training in Northern Brazil; healthy complementary feeding in Acre, Brazilian Amazon; integrality in the interprofessional performance in the care of childhood obesity; Breastfeeding promotion actions at daycare centers in the city of São Paulo; Almanac of Emotions for children and adolescents in times of pandemic.