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DOI :10.26650/jchild.2025.1608583   IUP :10.26650/jchild.2025.1608583    Full Text (PDF)

Development of Child Health in the Republic of Türkiye: A Century, From Tradition to the Future

Alev Bakır Kayı, Gonca Keskindemirci, Öykü Özbörü Aşkan, Emine Gülbin Gökçay

In the 100th anniversary of our Republic, we have reviewed the developments in child health led by Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his comrades and improved by esteemed professors. The impact of the topics in the National Turkish Medical Congresses held between 1925 and 1986 is reflected until today. We included information on social and education rights, nutritional problems, breastfeeding, and vaccination of children around the world and in Türkiye. With demographic data in the 100th Year of the Republic, we examined the crude birth rate, mortality, and dependency rates. We have endeavored to address the situations that await us in the future in terms of chronic diseases, media addiction, vaccine hesitancy/ refusal, and the digital world and biotechnology, which now occupy a big place in our lives.

Keywords: Child Health, 100th anniversary, Republic of Türkiye

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