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Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents

AUTHOR Hagan, Joseph F.; Shaw, Judith S.; Hagan, Joseph F. et al.
PUBLISHER American Academy of Pediatrics (02/15/2017)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

Description
This essential resource provides key background information and recommendations for themes critical to healthy child development along with well-child supervision standards for 31 age-based visits--from Newborn through 21 Years.

What's in the Bright Futures Guidelines, Fourth Edition?
Twelve health promotion themes addressing
- lifelong health for families and communities NEW
- family support
- health for children and youth with special health care needs NEW
- healthy development
- mental health
- healthy weight
- healthy nutrition
- physical activity
- oral health
- healthy adolescent development
- healthy and safe use of social media NEW
- safety and injury prevention

31 age-based health supervision visits--Newborn to 21 Years
All the information and guidance that's needed to give children optimal health outcomes
-Context
-Health Supervision
-History
-Surveillance of Development
-Review of Systems
-Observation of Parent-Child Interaction
-Physical Examination
-Medical Screening
-Immunizations
-Anticipatory Guidance

What's NEW in the 4th Edition?
-Builds upon previous editions with new and updated content that reflects the latest research.

-Incorporates evidence-driven recommendations.

-Includes three new health promotion themes:
-Promoting Lifelong Health for Families and Communities
-Promoting Health for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs
-Promoting the Healthy and Safe Use of Social Media

-Includes new screen time recommendations

-Provides greater focus on lifelong physical and mental health
-Weaves social determinants of health throughout the Visits, allowing health care professionals to consider social factors like food insecurity, violence, and drug use that may affect a child's and family's health

-Features updated Milestones of Development and Developmental Surveillance questions

-Provides new clinical content that informs health care professionals about the latest recommendations and provides guidance on how to implement them in practice:
-Maternal depression screening, Safe sleep, Iron supplementation in breast fed infants, Fluoride varnish, Dyslipidemia blood screening

-Includes updates to several Adolescent screenings

With Bright Futures, health care professionals can accomplish 4 tasks in 18 minutes
-Disease detection
-Disease prevention
-Health promotion
-Anticipatory guidance

What is Bright Futures?
-A set of theory-based, evidence-driven, and systems-oriented principles, strategies, and tools that health care professionals can use to improve the health and well-being of children through culturally appropriate interventions. Bright Futures addresses the current and emerging health promotion needs of families, clinical practices, communities, health systems, and policymakers.
-The Bright Futures Guidelines are the blueprint for health supervision visits for all children.
-Bright Futures is the health promotion and disease prevention part of the patient-centered medical home.

Who can use Bright Futures?
-Child health professionals and practice staff who directly provide primary care
-Parents and youth who participate in well-child visits
-Public Health Professionals
-Policymakers
-Pediatric Educators
-MD Residents


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Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781610020220
ISBN-10: 1610020227
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
Edition Number: 0004
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Page Count: 868
Carton Quantity: 6
Product Dimensions: 8.50 x 1.60 x 10.80 inches
Weight: 4.50 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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BISAC Categories
Medical | Pediatrics
Medical | Family & General Practice
Medical | Public Health
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016940985
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This essential resource provides key background information and recommendations for themes critical to healthy child development along with well-child supervision standards for 31 age-based visits--from Newborn through 21 Years.

What's in the Bright Futures Guidelines, Fourth Edition?
Twelve health promotion themes addressing
- lifelong health for families and communities NEW
- family support
- health for children and youth with special health care needs NEW
- healthy development
- mental health
- healthy weight
- healthy nutrition
- physical activity
- oral health
- healthy adolescent development
- healthy and safe use of social media NEW
- safety and injury prevention

31 age-based health supervision visits--Newborn to 21 Years
All the information and guidance that's needed to give children optimal health outcomes
-Context
-Health Supervision
-History
-Surveillance of Development
-Review of Systems
-Observation of Parent-Child Interaction
-Physical Examination
-Medical Screening
-Immunizations
-Anticipatory Guidance

What's NEW in the 4th Edition?
-Builds upon previous editions with new and updated content that reflects the latest research.

-Incorporates evidence-driven recommendations.

-Includes three new health promotion themes:
-Promoting Lifelong Health for Families and Communities
-Promoting Health for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs
-Promoting the Healthy and Safe Use of Social Media

-Includes new screen time recommendations

-Provides greater focus on lifelong physical and mental health
-Weaves social determinants of health throughout the Visits, allowing health care professionals to consider social factors like food insecurity, violence, and drug use that may affect a child's and family's health

-Features updated Milestones of Development and Developmental Surveillance questions

-Provides new clinical content that informs health care professionals about the latest recommendations and provides guidance on how to implement them in practice:
-Maternal depression screening, Safe sleep, Iron supplementation in breast fed infants, Fluoride varnish, Dyslipidemia blood screening

-Includes updates to several Adolescent screenings

With Bright Futures, health care professionals can accomplish 4 tasks in 18 minutes
-Disease detection
-Disease prevention
-Health promotion
-Anticipatory guidance

What is Bright Futures?
-A set of theory-based, evidence-driven, and systems-oriented principles, strategies, and tools that health care professionals can use to improve the health and well-being of children through culturally appropriate interventions. Bright Futures addresses the current and emerging health promotion needs of families, clinical practices, communities, health systems, and policymakers.
-The Bright Futures Guidelines are the blueprint for health supervision visits for all children.
-Bright Futures is the health promotion and disease prevention part of the patient-centered medical home.

Who can use Bright Futures?
-Child health professionals and practice staff who directly provide primary care
-Parents and youth who participate in well-child visits
-Public Health Professionals
-Policymakers
-Pediatric Educators
-MD Residents


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Author: American Academy of Pediatrics
Dr. Steven P. Shelov, M.D., M.S., F.A.A.P. is Professor of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Chairman of Pediatrics at Maimonides Medical Center and Lutheran Medical Center and Vice President of the Infants' and Childrens' Hospital of Brooklyn. He is the Editor-in-Chief of several of the parent publications for the AAP including "Caring For Your Baby" and "Young Child, The First Year Of Life," and" A Guide to Child Symptoms," Dr. Shelov pioneered and developed these series of books. In 2002, Dr. Shelov was presented with the Lifetime Achievement in Education Award by the American Academy of Pediatrics, its singular highest award for pediatric education. The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 57,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric specialists dedicated to the health, safety, and well-being of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. AAP books with Bantam include "Caring for Your Baby" and "Young Child Birth to Five," "Caring for Your School-Age Child Ages 5 to 12," "Caring for Your Teenage"r, "Guide to Toilet Training," and "New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding,"
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