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A Comparison of Australian and Overseas Legislation Relating to The Rights of Children to Health Surveillance and Medical Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2024

Anne L. Blood  and
Graham V. Vimpani
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The notion of legislation being required to ensure compliance with preventive health surveillance programmes in infancy, may with some validity, be questioned on the grounds that handicap in children occurs less frequently than in previous generations. Physical handicaps like the limb weakness which followed poliomyelitis which was prevalent 30 to 100 years ago are virtually unheard of today but there is evidence that there are, particularly in the lower socio-economic groups in our community, significant numbers of children with hidden, undiagnosed disabilities such as deafness.

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Research Article
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Children Australia , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , Summer 1979 , pp. 37 - 43
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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