CHILD SPECIFIC INDICATORS OF VISIT
5.7. Health Care
A. ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE (ASSESSMENT, DOCUMENTATION,
INFORMATION)
Do children have access to equivalent care services with those
enjoyed by patients in the outside community?
Does the health/medical care services for children constitute an
integrated part of a multidisciplinary (medico-psycho-social)
programme of care?
ASK: Children | Staff (medical staff) | Director
OBSERVE:
ʺʺ Health facilities, equipment, see whether they allow privacy, whether they are well equipped,
clean, respectful of the child’s dignity
ʺʺ Pharmaceutical Materials, see whether they are correctly administered and correctly stored
ʺʺ State of health of children, see whether s/he seems in good overall health
CHECK:
ʺʺ Individual programme, see whether it includes adequate (preventive and remedial) health/
medical care services (including dental services, ophthalmologist, psychiatric, psychological
and counselling services + pharmaceutical product and special diets) and whether it includes
health education
ʺʺ Medical registers, see whether the individual programme has been established on the basis
of the first interview and physical examination done upon arrival to the facility
ʺʺ Availability and suitability of health facilities and health professionals inside the facility
and of services of the local community
ʺʺ Co-ordination between the work of an establishment’s health-care team (doctors, nurses,
psychologists, etc.) that of other staff including specialised educators, social workers and
teachers, and that of external services
ʺʺ Medical registers, see whether the child has been examined on a regular basis, by which
health-care professional (inside or outside the facility), if a follow up has been done when
needed, under which treatment s/he is, the illness-injuries-pains-trauma s/he complained
about or has been treated for, the potential connections of dates between incidents and
injuries; see how often they are updated
ʺʺ Observance of medical confidentiality, see whether the examinations of children are
conducted out of the hearing and out of the sight of non-medical staff
ʺʺ Waiting list, see how long children have to wait on average to be provided with the
appropriate health care services
ʺʺ Perception of children of the health/medical care services
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