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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. The result: better health care, more efficient visits, stronger partnerships with children and families, and better ability to keep up with changes in family, communities, and society that affect a child’s health.

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 �

Typham this is the title: Bright Futures Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents 4th Edition