The Biology of Child Health: A Reader in Development and Assessment

ISBN-13: 9780333776360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 324 str.

Sarah Neill

Opis

All health care professionals involved in the care of children, well or sick, need an understanding of the biological processes underpinning child development. This text presents information covering many of the key aspects of the biology of child health from conception to adolescence. Explicit links are made between physiological development and the assessment of the child's health. This important text is a key resource for all students and professionals working in the area.

Spis treści

Before Life Begins: Preconceptual Influences on Child Health; S.Langley Evans.- Inheritance and Child Health; S.Price.- Central Nervous System Development; L.Bowden & S.Neill.- The Development of Movement; S.Oldfield.- The Respiratory System in Infancy and Early Childhood; A.F.Hoo.- Internal Transport: Blood and Haemostasis; A.Lewandoaska & C.Smith.- Internal Transport: Heart and Circulation; B.Novak.- Feeding the Body in Childhood; J.Wilcox.- Control of Body Fluids in Childhood; A.Kanneh.- Protecting the Body from Infections during Childhood; E.Purssell.- Index.

O autorze

SARAH NEILL is Senior Lecturer in Children's Nursing at the University College Northampton. She has a background in a wide range of clinical posts in children's nursing, followed by ten years as a lecturer, primarily for pre- and post-registration children's nurses, where she has specialised in the teaching of biological aspects of child health.

HELEN KNOWLES is Coronary Heart Disease Programme Coordinator at Bedford Primary Care Trust, UK. She has a background in nursing and health visiting with a breadth of experience both in practice and higher education, where she was involved in teaching biology to nursing students.