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Pediatrics: Well Child Care was created to reflect the developmental health needs and requirements of children from birth to eighteen (18) years of age, and to provide the rationale and means of tracking any given child through that development, allowing for comparisons to charts and schedules of normative data in Immunization, Nutrition, Hygiene/Dental, Developmental Milestones, Anticipatory Guidance, and Growth Issues for each age, beginning at newborns.

The CD allows you to record and follow the growth of a child or children and compare that with the national standards used by physicians worldwide. Detailed information and instructions on how to plot and use growth charts are provided. Other features of the Growth Charts allow you to search for a particular child’s records from the database. The CD will then search the Database for that information and automatically bring that to the Growth Chart area. There is a metric conversion calculator for the 4 possible charts, and blank full-sized growth charts may be printed out for hand plotting. Physicians find this section of inestimable value in record keeping.

Educational Objectives
Upon completion of the CD, the learner will be able to:

· Explain, in detail, the immunization needs and their rationale for children from birth to 18 years of age with attention to the country of residence requirements.

· Describe the optimal nutritional/dietary requirements for each stage of child development (0-18 years), the effects of acceptable alternatives, and the rationale for maintaining such nutritional standards.

· Identify and explain the specific hygienic factors at various stages of child development (0-18 years) which either contribute to a healthy child and environment, or contribute to disease or discomfort and may have life-long effects.

· Define the dental health requirements of children at various stages of development, identify the contributory factors for strong dental health, and list those factors which promote poor dental health.

· Understand, explain, and give rationale for the anticipatory guidance requirements of children, appropriate for age and gender, for a healthy and secure environment.

· List and define the significance of developmental milestones in growth and development, and describe their significance in assessing the overall health and well-being (by age and gender) of the growing child, as well as their usefulness in identifying areas of potential concern.

· Analyze the growth data for any given child, birth to 18 years, and compare them by age and gender to the median percentiles (USA growth charts are provided) to determine growth profiles, searching especially for any widely variant factors needing further investigation as to cause.

· Identify, explain, and counsel on the specific hormonal, sexual and gender specific concerns of adolescence.