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    Unit 2

    Concepts, Trends And Issues On


    Child Health Care
    Concept of child health and child health
    nursing
    • Child Health Care has changed dramatically in
    recent years due to advances in medical
    knowledge and understanding of emotional
    response of children
    • Health exists when an individual meets minimum
    physical, physiological, intellectual, psychological
    and social aspects to function appropriately for
    their age and sex
    Contd..
    • Illness is the situations when individual
    experiences a disturbance in any of these
    areas that prevents functioning at appropriate
    level.
    • Modern concept of child health emphasizes
    on continuous care of “whole child”.
    Philosophy of child health care
    • Nursing of infants, children and adolescents is
    consistent with the definition of nursing as
    ‘the diagnosis and treatment of human
    responses to actual or potential health
    problems.’ This definition incorporates 4
    essential features of contemporary nursing
    practice. (American Nurses Association,2003):
    Contd..
    1. Attention to the full range of human
    experience and response to health and illness
    without restriction to a problem-focused
    orientation.
    2. Integration of objective data with knowledge
    gained from an understanding of the patient
    or group’s subjective experience.
    Contd..
    3. Application of scientific knowledge to the
    processes of diagnosis and treatment.
    4. Provision of a caring relationship that
    facilitates health and healing.
    Child Health Indicators
    The health of the community can be readily
    assessed by the level of care given to the children
    which can be assessed by health indicators.
    Major child health indicators are:
     Morbidity indicators
     Mortality indicators
     Nutritional status indicators
     Breastfeeding indicators
    Contd..
    Morbidity indicators:
    Morbidity is defined as ‘any departure ,
    subjective or objective from a state of
    physiological well-being’. Morbidity can be
    measured in terms of 3 units:
    • Person who were ill
    • The illness that the person experienced
    • Duration of these illness.

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