Well-Child Care: Promoting Health and Development

Table of Contents

1. Well-Child Care: Promoting Health and Development
2. Meeting A Family For The First Time
3. Dress And Demeanor In The Examining Room:
4. Use of Worksheets
5. Acute Care Visits
6. Obtaining the Initial Family and Medical History at the First Visit
7. Quickchecks for Sections A through F
8. Health Assessments of the Infant (0 Through 11 Months)
9. Growth Charts Quiz
10. Quickchecks Sections G through I
11. Health Assessment of The Preschool Child (12 months - through 4 years)
12. Quickchecks Sections H through K
13. Health Assessment of the School Age Child (5-12 Years)
14. Developmental Milestones Photo Quiz
15. Quickchecks Sections M and N
16. Resources and References

Well-Child Care: Promoting Health and Development

David McCormick, MD.

Pediatricians are in a unique position to contribute to the good health and success of children under their care. A pediatrician often has the opportunity to know the family since the birth of the child and understands the social, medical and developmental factors that can potentially interfere with normal function. She or he can facilitate medical management, provide a referral to a specialist when necessary, work closely with schools and agencies to provide necessary additional services, and initiate community action projects to address important health issues.

It has been said that "the child is not just a small adult." Children differ from grown-ups in both physiology and pathology. They also differ from each other. The health needs of infants, children, and teenagers are not identical.

This chapter with the help you learn to:

• obtain a history and perform a physical examination in infants, pre-school, and school-age children,
• provide age-appropriate health-maintenance advice,
• assess and recognize common variations in development, and
• use growth charts to recognize common variations in growth.