Normative analysis of the voice of children in Brazilian child protection legislation.

Objective: to identify and analyse children's voices in healthcare decision making in the discourse of Brazil's child protection laws.

Method: Documentary normative analysis of Brazil's child protection legislation (1988-2012) based on the content analysis of nine texts, conducted in 2015.

Results: The legislation acknowledges and stresses the voice of children in the decision-making process in research and healthcare.

A pharmacoeconomic evaluation of seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Spain.

Background: Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of illness in children. Seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-7), recently approved in the United States, is the first vaccine to provide protective immunity against pneumococcal disease in children under the age of 2. PCV-7 is nearly 100% effective in preventing invasive pneumococcal infections and has been shown to significantly decrease the incidence of pneumonia and otitis media.