Bronchial Asthma Management in Children

- Glossary

➡️Health professionals

Health professionals’ study, advise on or provide preventive, curative, rehabilitative and promotional health services based on an extensive body of theoretical and factual knowledge in diagnosis and treatment of disease and other health problems. They may conduct research on human disorders and illnesses and ways of treating them and supervise other workers. The knowledge and skills required are usually obtained as the result of study at a higher educational institution in a health-related field for a period of 2–7 years leading to the award of a first degree or higher qualification. Health professionals include doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacist, paramedical practitioners.

➡️Health workers

Health workers make up the health workforce and are people engaged to deliver health care to individuals and populations as part of the health system. Health workers are divided up into five main categories: health professionals, health associate professionals, personal care workers in health services, health management and support personnel, and other health service providers not elsewhere classified.

➡️Mother/caregiver-infant

This term is used predominantly in relation to infants to highlight the importance of providing services for the mother/caregiver-infant pair together with a holistic approach encompassing all their physical and mental health and nutrition needs and recognizing the interdependence of this unit, especially in the early months of an infant’s life.

➡️Referral

Referral, for the purpose of this guideline, refers predominantly to a child being referred to inpatient care from outpatient care. Asthmatic child might however also get referred to expert in asthma management for follow-up.