Improving musculoskeletal health for children and young people - A 'call to action'

Helen E Foster; Christiaan Scott; Carl J Tiderius; Matthew B Dobbs; Members of the Paediatric Global Musculoskeletal Task Force

doi:10.1016/j.berh.2020.101566

Improving musculoskeletal health for children and young people - A 'call to action'

Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 2020 Oct;34(5):101566. doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2020.101566. Epub 2020 Jul 26.

Authors

Helen E Foster¹, Christiaan Scott², Carl J Tiderius³, Matthew B Dobbs⁴; Members of the Paediatric Global Musculoskeletal Task Force

Collaborators

Members of the Paediatric Global Musculoskeletal Task Force:
Elizabeth Ang⁵, Sirirat Charuvanij⁶, Wendy Costello⁷, Marja Kinnunen⁸, Laura B Lewandowski⁹, Angela Migowa¹⁰, Simon R Stones¹¹, Soamarat Vilaiyuk¹², Kate Webb¹³

Affiliations

¹ Newcastle University UK and Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia, Paediatric Rheumatology, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK. Electronic address: h.e.foster@newcastle.ac.uk.
² University Cape Town, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital Cape Town, South Africa. Electronic address: chris.scott@uct.ac.za.
³ Department of Orthopaedics Skane University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Electronic address: carl_johan.tiderius@med.lu.se.
⁴ Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis Children's Hospital, Missouri, USA, One Children's Place, Suite 4S60, St Louis, MO 63110, USA. Electronic address: dobbsm@wustl.edu.
⁵ Division of Paediatric Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology, Department of Paediatrics, Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital Singapore, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address: elizabeth_ang@nuhs.edu.sg.
⁶ Division of Rheumatology, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. Electronic address: sirirat_52@yahoo.com.
⁷ European Network for Children with Arthritis and Autoinflammatory Diseases. Electronic address: icanireland@gmail.com.
⁸ Finnish Musculoskeletal Association, Helsinki, Finland. Electronic address: marja.kinnunen@suomentule.fi.
⁹ Lupus Genomics and Global Health Disparities Unit National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, USA. Electronic address: laura.lewandowski@nih.gov.
¹⁰ Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. Electronic address: angela.migowa@yahoo.com.
¹¹ Collaboro Consulting, Manchester, UK. Electronic address: Stonbones@yahoo.co.uk.
¹² Rheumatology Division, Pediatric Department, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. Electronic address: soamarat21@hotmail.com.
¹³ University College London Crick African Network Research Fellow, Paediatric Rheumatologist, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Electronic address: kate.webb@uct.ac.za.

Abstract

This chapter describes the musculoskeletal (MSK) context in children and young people as an important contributor to the global non-communicable disease burden. Through selected MSK conditions, we describe the impact on patients, families and communities and highlight the challenges that need to be addressed. We focus on opportunities for better working together and describe exemplar initiatives to raise awareness, workforce capacity building, models of care and research agendas to have a greater global context.

Keywords: Awareness; Burden; Children; Impact; Models of care; Musculoskeletal; Workforce capacity; Young people.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Humans
Musculoskeletal Diseases* / diagnosis
Musculoskeletal Diseases* / epidemiology
Musculoskeletal Diseases* / therapy
Workforce

Grants and funding

MR/P028071/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom