Child Healthcare Information and Learning Discussion group

By 2015, every child worldwide will have access to an informed healthcare provider

CHILD2015 offers you an independent forum to stimulate debate and propose practical solutions for improving child healthcare worldwide. The focus is on the information and learning needs of healthcare providers at the local level: households and communities; primary health workers; health professionals working in district hospital facilities.

The group is open to anyone with an interest in improving child healthcare in developing countries.

Please email CHILD2015-admin@dgroups.org stating that you would like to join CHILD2015.

We encourage you to supply some details about yourself for your personal CHILD2015 PROFILE. This will be added to the end of any messages that you post, unless you request otherwise, so that members can appreciate “where you are coming from” and also identify others with similar interests to themselves.

In your e-mail, please tell us:

• your name
• your position
• the organisation you work for
• your country of residence
• your professional interests
• any other information that you feel is relevant to the Group

With your permission, your CHILD2015 PROFILE will be added to the CHILD2015 Members Directory, a public-access, online resource to facilitate communications.

It’s easy! Just send your message to CHILD2015@dgroups.org

We welcome all messages, even if controversial, provided that they are relevant to the CHILD2015 purpose: Working towards a future where every child has access to an informed healthcare provider. (The term 'healthcare provider' here includes any provider of child healthcare, including mothers/fathers/family carers; primary health workers; district-level health professionals; and child health specialists.)

Examples of discussion topics include (but are not restricted to):

• how to identify the information and learning needs of healthcare providers
• how to increase the availability and use of healthcare information and knowledge
• recommended reference and learning materials for healthcare providers

CHILD2015 is also a great way to make contacts; let people know about your activities and publications; and ask for help and advice.

When you reply to messages from other members, please address your message to the whole group if your reply is likely to be of interest to other subscribers.

English is the main language of CHILD2015. Messages in French are also welcome and will be forwarded to the list together with an English translation by the CHILD2015 team. We aim to accommodate other languages in the future.

To preserve the quality and integrity of the forum please do not post:

• messages that are not relevant to the CHILD2015 remit
• personal messages to other Discussion Group members
• messages of a defamatory nature or that may cause offence
• commercial messages, promoting goods or services for profit
• messages advertising vacant positions or asking for funding
• attachments: CHILD2015 carries plain text only

The default setting for new members is to receive messages from other members as soon as they are approved by the moderator. If you would prefer to receive only one email per day (all CHILD2015 messages for the previous 24 hours sent to you in a single email), you can set this up yourself as follows:

1. Go to: www.dgroups.org/groups/child2015 and log in with your email address and password

2. At the top of the page, click on 'My account'. This will take you to your personal configuration page.

3. Under 'Contact details', click on 'I would like to change this' and you will be offered a choice of various options, including how to change to daily, weekly or monthly digests. If you are a member of more than one Dgroup, you can change your settings for each group individually under 'Community info'.

Just click on the green tab 'discussions'. The archive is freely available to members and non-members.

CHILD2015 Resources include:

Please send your request to: CHILD2015-admin@dgroups.org

CHILD2015 administrators are not responsible for the quality and accuracy of information posted by Discussion Group members.

To ensure integrity, the forum is overseen by skilled moderators. As a group member, you can be assured that all messages that you receive will be relevant, readable, and understandable. Messages are proofread before posting to ensure they are reader-friendly. All internet addresses mentioned in emails are checked for functionality.

CHILD2015 is managed and moderated by Global Healthcare Information Network (www.ghi-net.org) and the International Child Health Group (www.ichg.org.uk), UK.