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Health for all children / edited by David M.B. Hall and David Elliman.
LIBRA RJ101 .H43 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford medical publications
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Preventive health services for children.
- Medical screening.
- Preventive health services for children--Great Britain.
- Medical screening--Great Britain.
- Child Health Services.
- United Kingdom.
- Health Promotion.
- Mass Screening.
- Infant.
- Child.
- Population Surveillance.
- Great Britain.
- Medical Subjects:
- Child Health Services.
- United Kingdom.
- Health Promotion.
- Mass Screening.
- Infant.
- Child.
- Population Surveillance.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Other Title:
- HFAC4
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- In 1989, the Joint Working Party on Child Health Surveillance published the first edition of Health for All Children, which reviewed screening and prevention services for pre-school children. The second edition was published in 1992 and the third in 1996, to take account of new insights into screening and child health promotion. The present Government is committed to reducing inequalities and improving children's lives and is making a substantial investment in early years work, education, and children's mental health. This new edition, the fourth, has been extensively revised to take account of this changing political landscape. Its scope has been extended to include the school years and services for children who need extra help and support. Health For All Children sets out a rational approach to planning and decision-making for those who commission or provide services for children. It is not the last word on the subject -- the authors will be delighted if new research and new ideas call for a fifth edition within a few years. This book will, like its previous editions, be essential reading for all health professionals who work with children whether in the community or at the receiving end of referrals. It will also provide vital background knowledge for those charged with the responsibility of planning, commissioning, and monitoring.
- Contents:
- Executive summary of the fourth edition of Health for all children xvii
- 1 Health for all children? 1
- A decade of change 3
- Terms and concepts used in public health 10
- Statutory duties 16
- Interprofessional working 17
- User and carer involvement 17
- Children's service plans 18
- Partnership in action 19
- Children in need 19
- What works? The need for evidence and the 'best-buy' concept 22
- 2 Child health promotion
- focus on parents 27
- Child health promotion
- an overview 28
- A holistic approach 30
- Social support
- concepts, benefits, and implications for targeting 31
- Adult health issues and their impact on children 40
- A summary of the evidence
- what works in child health promotion? 49
- 3 Promoting child development 53
- Helpful parenting 55
- Education for parenthood 56
- Primary prevention of behavioural and psychological problems 58
- The relationship between social isolation, parental depression, and child development 60
- Promoting child development and language acquisition 63
- Motor development and coordination 66
- Child protection
- primary prevention of child abuse and neglect 66
- The effectiveness of primary prevention programmes 70
- 4. Child health promotion
- opportunities for primary prevention 77
- Reducing the incidence of infectious diseases 77
- Prevention of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) 82
- Reducing smoking by parents 84
- Unintentional injury prevention 86
- Nutrition 95
- Dental and oral disease 101
- Special situations 103
- 5 Health promotion and health care for school-age children and young people 107
- Children's views 108
- Starting school 109
- Health in school 110
- Public health focus 119
- Vulnerable children and young people 120
- Young mothers and teenage pregnancy 121
- 6 Secondary prevention: early detection and the role of screening 129
- Does early detection matter? 129
- How early detection is achieved 131
- All parents need help sometimes
- the role of professional advice 133
- The role of formal screening programmes 134
- The need for professional sensitivity 135
- Screening 135
- 7 Physical examination 145
- Neonatal and 8-week examinations 145
- Screening by physical examination after 8 weeks of age 148
- School entrant medical examination 148
- Physical examination 153
- 8 Growth monitoring and nutrition 169
- Requirements for growth monitoring 170
- Benefits of growth monitoring 175
- Weight monitoring 177
- Length and height monitoring 181
- Obesity 184
- Occipito-frontal head circumference (OFC) 188
- Appendix Regression of the mean 194
- 9 Laboratory and radiological screening tests 196
- Neonatal blood-spot-based programmes 196
- Urine infections 202
- Other screening programmes 202
- 10 Iron deficiency 205
- Prevalence 206
- Screening 207
- Primary prevention 208
- 11 Screening for hearing defects 212
- Permanent childhood hearing impairment (PCHI) 213
- Early diagnosis and intervention for PCHI 216
- Approaches to screening 218
- 12 Screening for vision defects 230
- Conditions causing a disabling vision impairment as the primary problem 230
- Screening for common non-incapicitating vision defects 231
- Pre-school screening for vision defects 236
- Detection of strabismus (squint) 237
- Community screening
- evidence and options 238
- Colour vision defects 239
- Vision and 'dyslexia' 240
- 13 Identifying children with developmental and behavioural problems 245
- Definition of disablement 246
- Epidemiology 247
- The challenge
- identification of developmental disorders and disabilities 248
- Developmental disorders and disabilities
- identification and management 250
- How to provide the services needed 271
- 14 Children with disabilities and special educational needs 275
- Children with disability 275
- Special educational needs 282
- 15 Child protection programme 291
- Child abuse and neglect 291
- Looked after children 300
- Children in private fostering arrangements 313
- Adoption 315
- 16 Children in special circumstances 321
- Asylum seekers, refugees, and internationally adopted children 321
- Travellers 327
- Homelessness 328
- Children, young people, and prison 330
- 17 Personal Child Health Records and minimum dataset 335
- Personal Child Health Records 335
- Information 341
- 18 The universal programme 345
- Why we recommend a universal or core programme 345
- The objectives of the universal or core programme 347
- Vulnerable children 349
- Primary care for children 350
- Summary of the core programme 350
- Targeting child health promotion programmes 358
- 19 Implementing the programme 367
- Appendix Policy framework, legislation, and policy 375
- Special units 375
- Cross-cutting policies 376
- Education policy 380
- Health policy 382
- Social care policy 385
- Reports 387.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 019851588X
- OCLC:
- 51987761
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