Chapter Eight: Promoting Good Health for Children

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Chapter Eight Promoting Good Health for
Children
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Health Policies

• Help manage risk to good physical and mental
  health
• Should be developed and directed for children and
  staff
• Promote healthy practices
• Lay the foundation for child care health

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Designing a Health Policy

• Establish a process (What process will be
  followed?)
• Assign responsibility (Who is responsible for
  making sure process is followed?)
• Offer guidance for action (What needs to be done?
  Are there any time parameters for limitations?)

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Providing High Quality Child Care

• Goal One ? Maximizing health status of children
• Goal Two ? Minimizing risk to health, safety, and
  well-being of children
• Goal Three ? Using education as a tool to promote
  health and reduce risk
• Goal Four ? Recognizing the importance of
  guidelines

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Childrens Health Records

• Include
• Health history and updates
• Immunization records
• Injury reports
• Assessment and screening results

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• Medication log and permission
• Health communication history
• Reports of illness in care
• Growth chart

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Staff Health

• Health History includes
• Name, etc. and physicians name
• Pre-employment exam
• Immunization records
• TB test results
• Hearing and vision screening

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Maintaining Staff Health

• Exposure to infectious diseases
• Stress
• Risk for back injury
• Potential exposure to environmental hazards

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Providing a Mentally Healthy Environment

• Check to make sure that your care
• Establishes a good relationship with parents
• Respect and mutual communication
• Responds with consistency, predictability, and
  regularity

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• Establishes daily routine security
• Provides support and emotional assurance for
  child
• Attention
• Affection
• Respect
• Mutual communication

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• Helps children to express and identify emotions
• Redirects anger and aggression through play and
  discussion
• Provides quiet area so child can be away from
  stimulation

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• Values each childs uniqueness, including culture
• Promotes responsive caregiving
• Is flexible and reasonable in expectations

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Promoting Good Health

• Health Policies
• Help manage risk to good physical and mental
  health
• Should be developed and directed for children and
  staff
• Promote healthy practices
• Lay the foundation for child care health

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Designing a Health Policy

• Health Policies
• Establish a process (What process will be
  followed?)
• Assign responsibility (Who is responsible for
  making sure process is followed?)
• Offer guidance for action (What needs to be done?
  Are there any time parameters for limitations?)

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Implications for Caregivers

• Role Modeling
• Exhibits knowledge and practice of healthy
  behavior
• Cultural Sensitivity
• Education

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?Reality CheckThe Resilient Child

• Vulnerable child
• Genetic abnormalities
• Malnutrition
• Preterm birth
• Prenatal stress
• Drug exposure
• Temperament

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• Have more difficulty adapting
• Parent may have more difficult time coping and
  attaching
• Insecurely attached children may be more
  vulnerable due to
• Poverty
• Abandonment
• Chaotic living environment

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• Resilient child
• Often first born
• Securely attached
• Has high intelligence level

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• More likely to form close relationships that are
  trusting
• Have positive qualities from both sexes
• Outgoing
• Autonomous
• Nurturing
• Emotionally sensitive

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Caregivers Role

• Vulnerable child
• Extra support
• Responsive and stimulating care
• Resilient child
• Secure attachment
• Cheerleader support

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?Reality CheckSecondhand Smoke

• Can lead to
• Respiratory diseases (asthma, pneumonia,
  bronchitis, and allergies)
• Middle-ear infections
• SIDS
• Vitamin C deficiency
• Behavioral problems