[Child is the father of man: new challenges for child health].

This paper offers an analysis of current demographic and epidemiological context in which the child falls and addresses the need to the reformulation of the health services intended for child care, pointing also to the question of the need to produce new knowledge that help them in a new pediatrics care. The knowledge that child care needs to be expanded to take into account acute problems and disease prevention in the long run, even in adulthood, introduces a new field for pediatrics that also demands the formation of new researchers who can give the children opportunities to be included in research on drugs and other therapeutic proposals addressed to them. In conclusion, health care strategies concentrated particularly on children with all their specificity, a growing and developing human being, need to be implemented in the health services so that they can grow well and become healthy adults.