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R Laporte1, K Hadji2, M Schwartz3
1Coordination Nationale des Permanences d'Accès aux Soins de Santé (PASS), France; Equipe de Recherche EA 3279 "Santé Publique, Maladies Chroniques et Qualité de Vie", Faculté de Médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
Abstract:
In France, units called "Healthcare Access Centers" (Permanences d'Accès aux Soins de Santé; PASS) improve access to the healthcare system for deprived outpatients in hospitals. This study aimed to describe child care in PASS in mainland France in 2019. PASS receive a growing number of children: 23.9% of all newly admitted patients. However, only 6.6% of children receiving care were seen by pediatricians. Social deprivation would receive better attention in pediatric care through the close partnership between PASS and pediatricians or through the direct intervention of the latter in PASS. This improvement also starts with the implementation of wide screening for social vulnerability during the routine medical follow-up of children.
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