Health for all children /

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Edition:4th ed.
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
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Other uniform titles:Joint Working Party on Child Health Surveillance (Great Britain). Health for all children.
Other authors / contributors:Hall, David M. B.
Elliman, David.
ISBN:019851588X (alk. paper)
Notes:Rev. ed. of: Health for all children / Joint Working Party on Child Health Surveillance. 3rd ed. 1996.
Includes index.
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