Reflexion about Pediatrics, Anesthesia and Education in Pediatric Anesthesia in Colombia and South America.
Latin America is a region with large changes in the last decade with the purpose of improving its political, economic, social and cultural situation. It must face a series of challenges to improve safety, health and education for people. This situation is no different in medical education and the way in which health systems operate in the region.
The aim of this article is to reflect the global situation from the pediatric anesthesia perspective and to analyze important aspects as health, infant mortality, poverty and education opportunities in Latin America. its challenges and the current projects from different countries with the goal to improve education and ensure better living conditions for children in this region of the world.
Nations in South America and The Caribbean have specific goals in order to improve the quality of life of the population (the millennium goals) those goals are: to reduce child mortality, to reduce hunger and poverty, to reach gender equality, and to improve access to education and to protect the environment and natural resources.
Children mortality has declined in the last ten years by different reasons : actions to improve mother´s health, prenatal care programs and better conditions for mothers have been
crucial to diminish mortality in babies under 1 year. But also, social policies as contraception programs in adolescents, massive vaccination in children and vulnerable population, better
possibilities to attend school and the improvement of life conditions in the rural area, are some of the most important strategies to reduce mortality in children.
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