Health for all children /
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Edition: | 4th ed. |
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Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. |
Description: | xx, 408 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Oxford medical publications |
Subject: | Mass Screening -- Child -- Great Britain. Mass Screening -- Infant -- Great Britain. Child Health Services -- Great Britain. Health Promotion -- Great Britain. Population Surveillance -- Child -- Great Britain. Population Surveillance -- Infant -- Great Britain. Medical screening. Preventive health services for children. Great Britain. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4841617 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Acknowledgements
- Executive summary of the fourth edition of Health for all children
- 1. Health for all children?
- A decade of change
- Definitions and concepts
- Terms and concepts used in public health
- Statutory duties
- Interprofessional working
- User and carer involvement
- Children's service plans
- Partnership in action
- Children in need
- What works? The need for evidence and the 'best-buy' concept
- Recommendations
- 2. Child health promotion--focus on parents
- Child health promotion--an overview
- A holistic approach
- Social support--concepts, benefits, and implications for targeting
- Adult health issues and their impact on children
- A summary of the evidence--what works in child health promotion?
- Recommendations
- 3. Promoting child development
- Helpful parenting
- Education for parenthood
- Primary prevention of behavioural and psychological problems
- The relationship between social isolation, parental depression, and child development
- Promoting child development and language acquisition
- Motor development and coordination
- Child protection--primary prevention of child abuse and neglect
- The effectiveness of primary prevention programmes
- Summary and recommendations
- 4.. Child health promotion--opportunities for primary prevention
- Reducing the incidence of infectious diseases
- Prevention of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI)
- Reducing smoking by parents
- Unintentional injury prevention
- Nutrition
- Dental and oral disease
- Special situations
- Recommendations
- 5. Health promotion and health care for school-age children and young people
- Children's views
- Starting school
- Health in school
- Public health focus
- Vulnerable children and young people
- Young mothers and teenage pregnancy
- Recommendations
- 6. Secondary prevention: early detection and the role of screening
- Does early detection matter?
- How early detection is achieved
- All parents need help sometimes--the role of professional advice
- The role of formal screening programmes
- The need for professional sensitivity
- Screening
- Recommendations
- 7. Physical examination
- Neonatal and 8-week examinations
- Screening by physical examination after 8 weeks of age
- School entrant medical examination
- Physical examination
- Recommendations
- 8. Growth monitoring and nutrition
- Requirements for growth monitoring
- Benefits of growth monitoring
- Weight monitoring
- Length and height monitoring
- Obesity
- Occipito-frontal head circumference (OFC)
- Recommendations
- Appendix. Regression of the mean
- 9. Laboratory and radiological screening tests
- Neonatal blood-spot-based programmes
- Miscellaneous
- Urine infections
- Other screening programmes
- Recommendations
- 10. Iron deficiency
- Definition
- Prevalence
- Screening
- Primary prevention
- Recommendations
- 11. Screening for hearing defects
- Permanent childhood hearing impairment (PCHI)
- Early diagnosis and intervention for PCHI
- Approaches to screening
- Recommendations
- 12. Screening for vision defects
- Conditions causing a disabling vision impairment as the primary problem
- Screening for common non-incapicitating vision defects
- Pre-school screening for vision defects
- Detection of strabismus (squint)
- Community screening--evidence and options
- Colour vision defects
- Vision and 'dyslexia'
- Recommendations
- 13. Identifying children with developmental and behavioural problems
- Definition of disablement
- Epidemiology
- The challenge--identification of developmental disorders and disabilities
- Developmental disorders and disabilities--identification and management
- How to provide the services needed
- Recommendations
- 14. Children with disabilities and special educational needs
- Children with disability
- Special educational needs
- Recommendations
- 15. Child protection programme
- Child abuse and neglect
- Looked after children
- Children in private fostering arrangements
- Adoption
- Summary and recommendations
- 16. Children in special circumstances
- Asylum seekers, refugees, and internationally adopted children
- Travellers
- Homelessness
- Children, young people, and prison
- Recommendations
- 17. Personal Child Health Records and minimum dataset
- Personal Child Health Records
- Information
- 18. The universal programme
- Why we recommend a universal or core programme
- General principles
- The objectives of the universal or core programme
- Vulnerable children
- Primary care for children
- Summary of the core programme
- Targeting child health promotion programmes
- Conclusions
- Recommendations
- 19. Implementing the programme
- Appendix. Policy framework, legislation, and policy
- Special units
- Cross-cutting policies
- Education policy
- Health policy
- Social care policy
- Reports
- Index