Improving musculoskeletal health for children and young people - A 'call to action'

Foster HE; Scott C; Tiderius CJ; Dobbs MB; Members of the Paediatric Global Musculoskeletal Task Force

doi:10.1016/j.berh.2020.101566

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Improving musculoskeletal health for children and young people - A 'call to action'

Foster HE ¹ , Scott C ² , Tiderius CJ ³ , Dobbs MB ⁴ , Members of the Paediatric Global Musculoskeletal Task Force

Affiliations

¹ Newcastle University UK and Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia, Paediatric Rheumatology, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK. Electronic address: h.e.foster@newcastle.ac.uk
² University Cape Town, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital Cape Town, South Africa. Electronic address: chris.scott@uct.ac.za
³ Department of Orthopaedics Skane University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Electronic address: carl_johan.tiderius@med.lu.se
⁴ Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis Children's Hospital, Missouri, USA, One Children's Place, Suite 4S60, St Louis, MO 63110, USA. Electronic address: dobbsm@wustl.edu

Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol, 2020 Oct;34(5):101566.

PMID: 32727697 DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2020.101566

Abstract

This chapter describes the musculoskeletal (MSK) context in children and young people as an important contributor to the global non-communicable disease burden. Through selected MSK conditions, we describe the impact on patients, families and communities and highlight the challenges that need to be addressed. We focus on opportunities for better working together and describe exemplar initiatives to raise awareness, workforce capacity building, models of care and research agendas to have a greater global context.

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