This unique new textbook explores the theory, practice, and implications for treating the family as a client across a variety of practice settings and within the specialties in which nurses practice. Illustrated.
Eighteen new chapters have been added to this valuable Handbook, which serves as a core text for students and experienced professionals who are interested in the health and well being of young children. It serves as a comprehensive reference for graduate students, advanced trainees, service providers, and policy makers in such diverse fields as ...
Medical advice, parenting tips, and information on developmental theories broken up into five sections--"Setting the Stage" (which deals with preparing for birth), "Your Child Age-by-Age," "Getting Help" (tips on child care and selecting a pediatrician), "Childhood Illness & Injury," and "Guide to Common Childhood Illness, Injury & Conditions." ...
The ideal of equality constitutes a criterion for assessing current practice through attention to differences among individuals and groups. Inequality occurs when irrelevant differences are invoked in order to secure power or advantages over others. This book examines health care issues from an egalitarian perspective, focusing particularly on ...
This rich and well-researched volume comes in the wake of intense national interest in young children. Leading scholars from diverse disciplines use relevant data from the Commonwealth Survey of Parents with Young Children to present new information about the lives of families with very young children - how parents spend their time with their ...
Early in childhood intervention is a young and rapidly growing field. In little more than a decade it has been transformed from an emerging service with a primitive empirical base, scant funding, and virtually no public mandate to a robust area of theory, research, and practice. Moreover, since the passage of the Education for All Handicapped ...
Since publication of the fourth edition of this highly successful book, there have been a number of Government initiatives, reports and policies on how the health of children can best be protected and promoted. This revised fourth edition incorporates recent material on the National Service Framework, 'Every Child Matters', the public health ...
Mother and Child Health: Delivering the Services provides an overview of the services and programmes which provide mothers and their children with effective primary health care. The authors present a practical philosophy to guide health workers who organize and implement preventive and curative care for mothers and children, particularly in ...
The purpose of this book is to provide a process for the development of effective community-wide health behaviour programmes for children and adolescents. Significant behaviour change among young people across a variety of behaviors and community-based research studies has been achieved through programmes that have been created on this ten-step ...
This book deals with child abuse and neglect as it presents itself in primary care. All health professionals, including those who work in primary care, have an important role to play in the child protection process. Inappropriate management of suspected instances of child abuse may result in serious implications for the child, family and involved ...
The fourth edition of this important and highly praised guide has been substantially revised and updated, providing concise, practical information on a difficult and distressing area of paediatric medicine. This new edition of the ABC of Child Protection now includes additional chapters on abdominal injury, neglect and failure to thrive. It ...
For graduate students and professionals with an interest in maternal and child health. Maternal and Child Health covers the wide range of issues involved in meeting the needs of pregnant women, mothers, and children of all ages -- and learn the pros and cons on current services, policies, and social forces that directly influence these populations ...
The importance of the issues surrounding public health can never be underestimated, and the significance of child health within the overall public health framework is of particular note. Professionals working with the school-age population are faced with a multitude of challenges particular to that age group, making the effective planning and ...
The major changes in the second edition include: more thorough and consistent use of the nursing process; increased content on patient/family teaching; emphasis on home care; increased pathophysiology content.
Dr Benjamin Spock's 1946 publication "Baby and Child Care" signaled the pervasive influence of medicalized motherhood. In this text, the author conducted interviews with African American and Jewish women who raised children in the 1930s and 1940s to see how they engaged with these ideas.
This thorough revision has important new topics such as the epidemic of obesity, efforts to reduce mother to child transmission of AIDS, new immunizations for child safety and more.
A recent Harris Poll revealed some disturbing aspects of the current state of health care provision for women and children. The poll dealt with issues as diverse as clincial examinations and communication between women and their doctors. Such issues, long ignored or under-appreciated by medical researchers, clinicians, and public policy makers, ...
This book is a practical guide to the CARE programme, a home visiting programme that aims to assess infants' growth, development and psycho--social transitions in their first year of life and that together with the Index of Need checklist aims to engage parents in risk assessment. It provides evidence--based research for the programme, and gives ...
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