Introduction to the basic elements of newborn care for undergraduates. It addresses the essentials expected of undergraduates to understand the care of newborns, identification of sick newborns and taking right steps in their care. Also highlights essential aspects of follow up after neonatal intensive care.

Social paediatrics covers the non biomedical aspects of disease and health states in children with a view to understanding how to prevent adverse outcomes in children due to poverty or other social adversities.