The Evolution of Pediatrics in Portugal: A Historical Overview

Year 2024, Volume: 23 Issue: 4, 379 - 383, 20.02.2024

Maria Teresa Neto , João M. Videira Amaral

https://doi.org/10.26650/jchild.2023.1327381

Abstract

In Portugal, the practice of children´s medicine is related to Dona Estefania Hospital, in Lisbon, the first pediatric hospital in the country, open in the last quarter of the 19th century. The very first doctors to care for children came from adult´s medicine, but they had great interest and understanding of children´s characteristics. The first full Professor, Jaime Ernesto Salazar d`Eça e Sousa, received his graduation at Boston University. He came back to Lisbon in 1897 as a specialist in orthopedics and pediatrician of medicine and surgery and started undergraduate and postgraduate pediatrics education. The evolution of pediatrics in the world over nearly the last 150 years has been astonishing, and Portugal has followed this evolution. Nowadays, Portuguese pediatrics is modern and organized and delivers the best health care, resulting in the best data to be found concerning all mortality rates in pediatrics.

Keywords

History, pediatrics, Portugal

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