How Well Are Well Children?
| Autor: | Harold Jacobziner, Herbert Rich, Roland C. Merchant, Nina Bleiberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1963 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Urology Statistics as Topic New York Tuberculin Child Behavior Disorders Minor (academic) Communicable Diseases Congenital Abnormalities Polio vaccine medicine Humans Smallpox Well child Orthopedic Procedures Child Socioeconomic status business.industry Public health Gastroenterology Infant Newborn Infant Articles General Medicine medicine.disease Health Surveys Mental health Nutrition Disorders Ophthalmology Orthopedics Family medicine business Ethnology |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health. 53:1937-1952 |
| ISSN: | 0002-9572 |
| DOI: | 10.2105/ajph.53.12.1937 |
| Popis: | THE Child Health Conference is devoted to the health supervision of "well" infants and preschool children with a view toward maintaining and promoting their physical, emotional, and social growth and development commensurate with the most recent available knowledge and with each child's maximum potential.1' 2 New dimensions based on most recent advances in medicine and public health are constantly added to the scope of the child health conference. A few added in recent years include the use of quadruple antigen, revaccination against smallpox at five years of age, routine PKU testing, vision testing, sweat test for cystic fibrosis and tuberculin testing in selected areas, use of live polio vaccine, treatment for "minor" illnesses, expansion of mental health services, i.e., individual and group-parent counseling, accident prevention, combined preventive and curative services, a pilot hearing testing program to determine whether it could be included as an integral part of the well child conference, extension of social and health services for the unwed mother, early identification and Rich, M.S., F.A.P.H.A.; Nina Bleiberg, M.D. |
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