Healthy Young Children: A Manual for Programs, 5th ed. Susan S. Aronson, MD, FAAP, Editor.
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Outline 5 components of Adolescents friendly health services.
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Text 1: Early childhood programs keep children safe when their facilities, materials, and equipment are hazard-free and all staff use safety practices, such as active supervision. Prevention is often the best form of safety, and so taking the time to plan a hazard-free classroom environment can go a long way toward minimizing the chance of injuries. It is important to understand the impact of safety on healthy development. Describe the areas in an early childhood setting that must be safe for the well-being of children. Foundations of a child's What proactive activities and responsive teaching strategies can be well-being used to meet a child's needs in each of the areas? Physical safety - freedom from threat of harm Emotional safety - freedom from fear and violence Freedom to learn and thrive Basic Needs for children Text 2: Most child injuries are preventable. Unfortunately, injuries are the leading cause of death in children in Canada. They include drowning, poisoning, suffocation, fires, burns, falls, and motor vehicle, bicycle, and pedestrian-related crashes. Most injuries are preventable by modifying the child's environment (e.g., use of stair gates) and having parents engage in safety practices (e.g., keeping matches or lighters out of reach of children). Effective injury prevention methods include the use of childproof caps on medications and household poisons, age-appropriate restraints in motor vehicles (i.e., car seats, booster seats, seat belts), bicycle helmets, and a four-sided fence with a locked gate around residential swimming pool. a. What are unintentional injuries? b. View Figure 13-1. What are the 10 leading causes of non-fatal injuries? c. What is a risk factor? Describe a variety of risk factors. Risk factor Description Child age and Child's sex Child's individual behavior style Location of child's residence
Healthy children from a small community in the Central region were surveyed for their height, weight, age, and sex. The weight distribution of 100 girls, taken within a week of their fifth birthday, is as follows: Weight (kg) 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 No. of girls 2 11 17 30 23 12 5 Assume that the mean = 18.7 kg and standard deviation (SD) = 1.2 kg. A girl who is 5 years old comes to a clinic from the same area. Her weight is 16.1 kg. a. Calculate the weight for age z-score (2 pts.) b. Calculate and interpret the percentile rank of the child. (3 pts.) c. How would you classify her nutritional status? Explain. (2 pts.) d. What advice would you the child's mother with respect to the weight of her child? (3 pts.)
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