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Definition of Child health

Medically reviewed by Dr. Otari Nergadze, Neurosurgeon | Updated: January 2026

Child health: The care and treatment of children. Child health is the purview of pediatrics, which became a medical specialty in the mid-nineteenth century. Before that time the care and treatment of childhood diseases were included within such areas as general medicine, obstetrics, and midwifery.

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