Rev. Soc. Bras. Enferm. Ped.2008;8(2):91-9.
Hospital class: a child’s right or the institution’s obligations?
DOI: 10.31508/1676-3793200800012
Abstract
To reflect over the hospital class as a child’s right or the institution’s obligation one needs to emphasize its importance for the child’s development. One of the school child’s most remarkable characteristic is the industriousness sense acquired mainly through formal education. This is a period marked by intellectual growth and child’s first commitment with a social group. Studies carried out with children with chronic diseases have shown that sequence to curricular activities is what they missed the most after they got sick, since a good school performance proves their cognitive capacity, reestablishing self-esteem and self-affirmation. School follow-up during the child’s hospitalization, although being part of the Brazilian Constitution, the Brazilian Pediatric Society, the Children’s and Adolescents’ Bill of Rights, and the National Council for Elementary Education, is still incipient. We believe that integration between education and health sectors is the means to guarantee the hospitalized child’s right and it is the institution’s obligation.