Pediatrics is the branch of medicine dealing with the health and medical care of infants, children, and adolescents from birth up to the age of 18. The word “paediatrics” means “healer of children”.
The Discipline of Paediatrics focuses its teaching and research on infant, child and adolescent health. Paediatrics encompasses all aspects of children's health and wellbeing—physical and mental health, acute and chronic conditions, and child and adolescent behaviour and development.
