The Biology of Child Health

A Reader in Development and Assessment

Sarah Neill, Helen Knowles (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2004
Red Globe Press (Verlag)
978-0-333-77636-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.7.2004
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Kinderkrankenpflege
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	0-333-77636-4 / 0333776364
ISBN-13	978-0-333-77636-0 / 9780333776360
Zustand	Neuware