{"title":"Pediatric health supervision: Birth to age two","authors":"MD Anne Kwasnik-Krawczyk","doi":"10.1016/S1082-7579(97)00100-3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although medicine has historically been organized around the diagnosis and treatment of disease, this model is poorly suited to the care of children and adolescents. The periodic health examination of children provides rich opportunities for physicians to implement preventive health care strategies. Several areas of health promotion are reviewed: the use of screening examinations, educating parents through anticipatory guidance, nutritional assessment and intervention, evaluation of growth and development, psychosocial assessment, and intervention to reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect. A carefully designed flow sheet is presented as a strategy to assist the busy clinician in providing a consistent, high level of preventive care to infants and young children.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100909,"journal":{"name":"Medical Update for Psychiatrists","volume":"3 2","pages":"Pages 34-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1082-7579(97)00100-3","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medical Update for Psychiatrists","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1082757997001003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Although medicine has historically been organized around the diagnosis and treatment of disease, this model is poorly suited to the care of children and adolescents. The periodic health examination of children provides rich opportunities for physicians to implement preventive health care strategies. Several areas of health promotion are reviewed: the use of screening examinations, educating parents through anticipatory guidance, nutritional assessment and intervention, evaluation of growth and development, psychosocial assessment, and intervention to reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect. A carefully designed flow sheet is presented as a strategy to assist the busy clinician in providing a consistent, high level of preventive care to infants and young children.