Child health computing.

Child Health

With a foreword by Sir Leonard Parsons, each section deals with an aspect in which the particular author is an expert, although the book is in no sense one for specialists. Rather is the reverse true, that here is ordinary practical advice covering the whole field now available. Thus the indications for residential schools are considered generally in one section, while in another on the handica...

How health issues affect child development Child Health

Infant and Young Child Feeding: a Key area to Improve Child Health

  Good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. For millions of chi...

Does the Child Health Computing System adequately identify children with cerebral palsy?

BACKGROUND This paper assesses the usefulness of the Child Health Computing System as a source of information about children with cerebral palsy. METHODS A comparative survey of information held on the Child Health Computing System (CHCS) and the Northern Ireland Cerebral Palsy Register (NICPR) in one Health and Social Services Board in Northern Ireland was carried out. The sample comprised c...

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