Medical support in children's camp: problems and solutions
- Authors: Sedova A.S.1, Protsenko L.M.2,3
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Affiliations:
- Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing
- Federal Center for Children-Youth Tourism, Local History and Children’s Recreation of the Federal Children’s of supplementary education and Children’s Recreation
- Moscow Pedagogical State University
- Issue: Vol 65, No 4 (2021)
- Pages: 310-317
- Section: HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION
- Submitted: 25.10.2024
- URL: https://hum-ecol.ru/0044-197X/article/view/637700
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.47470/0044-197X-2021-65-4-310-317
- ID: 637700
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Abstract
Introduction. High-quality medical support is an essential component of effective and safe recreation of children in the camp.
Aim is a scientific substantiation of improving the system of medical care in the camps.
Material and methods. A survey of 353 directors of day and stationary camps was conducted in the fall of 2020.
Results. The most pressing medical problems of the system of medical care of children in the camp were identified: lack of medical personnel (in 46.3% of camps); difficulties with licensing medical activities in the camp (in 15.8% of camps); low qualifications of medical personnel and medical literacy of pedagogical personnel in matters of medical support for camps (in 7.1% and 10.7% of camps, respectively); the inaccuracy of information available in the camp about the state of health of children in the medical certificates of children (in 22.6% of camps). 74.6% of directors pointed to the problems of interaction with the parents of children (unwillingness to provide children with medical certificates or necessary additional information about the state of health of children, refusal to receive treatment prescribed in the camp, etc.).
Conclusion. It is necessary to improve the legal regulation in the field of children’s recreation; provision of camps with qualified medical personnel; educational programs on medical care for children in the camp for teachers; increasing the responsibility for the health of children during their rest period of medical organizations that draw up medical documents for children in front of the camp, as well as parents of children.
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About the authors
Anna S. Sedova
Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing
Author for correspondence.
Email: sedova.as@fferisman.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0079-240X
MD, PhD (Tech. Sci.), Head of Hygiene of Children, Adolescents and Youth Department of Institute for Complex Hygiene Problems of the Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, Mytishchi, Moscow Region, 141014, Russian Federation.
e-mail: sedova.as@fferisman.ru; sedovas23@gmail.com
Russian FederationLeonid M. Protsenko
Federal Center for Children-Youth Tourism, Local History and Children’s Recreation of the Federal Children’s of supplementary education and Children’s Recreation; Moscow Pedagogical State University
Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3200-7763
Russian Federation
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