Kranke Kinder haben Rechte!

In the last 200 years, the field of paediatrics has taken enormously successful strides forward. However, in a healthcare system which is being increasingly geared towards efficiency and optimisation, the needs and rights of sick children are often overlooked, which includes aspects of hospital architecture and the necessary resources to afford children the time they need. Treating them as equals and respecting their participatory rights are also often neglected, while the particularities of paediatrics are hardly acknowledged in political debate or in the media.
The first German Child Health Summit, at which representatives from all Germany’s university children’s hospitals, experts in constitutional law, ethicists and experts from child rights and patients organisations discussed how the situation in the field of paediatrics can be improved and how the right of sick children to receive comprehensive healthcare can be guaranteed, focused on the current challenges involved in treating ill children. This book documents the contributions that were discussed at the conference.

With contributions by
Thomas Bergmann, Prof. Dr. Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Prof. Dr. Stefan Burdach, Prof. Dr. Klaus-Michael Debatin, Dr. Florian Eckert, Benedikt Keil, Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Paul Kirchhof, Prof. Dr. Dr. Christoph Klein, Prof. Dr. Thomas Klingebiel, Prof. Dr. Thomas Lücke, Prof. Dr. Jörg Maywald, Prof. Dr. Ursula Münch, Dr. Annette Mund, Prof.  Dr. Charlotte Niemeyer, Dr. Sabrina Oppermann, Antonia Pelshenke, Dr. Annika Reinersmann, Dr. Carolin Ruther, Pia Sailer, Helmut Schiffer, Karin Schmidt, Prof. Dr. Martin Schrappe, Jörg Siegmund and Prof. Dr. Klaus-Peter Zimmer.