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communityChapter33.pptxChapter 33 Child and Adolescent Health
Working with Families
Preventing mother and infant deaths
Immunizing children
Preventing Childhood injuries
Promoting children’s mental health
Selected Nursing Interventions
Transition from hospital to home
Weaving spirituality into nursing interventions
School-based programs
Illness
Obesity
Home-based programs
Improving Children’s Health: Systems of Care
Core values
Being child centered and family focused
Being community based so that children can live at home
Being culturally competent about racial, ethnic, and cultural differences among families
Providing individualized services that build on the strengths of families
Providing integrated, coordinated, effective, and efficient services
Identifying and treating problems early
Mental Health
Mental health is an important factor in the justice, school, healthcare, welfare, and public housing systems
Most of the children in the justice system have mental health problems
School systems are the largest providers of mental health services for children
Mental health problems increase the cost of care for physical health problems
School clinics
Resources
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010
Contexts for Growth and Development
Poverty
Low birth weight and prematurity
Respiratory illnesses
Maternal stress
Gastroenteritis
Poor education
Children raised in poverty at a disadvantage from the start
Social deprivation
Mental retardation
Childhood injuries
Violence and abuse
Poor environment
Contexts
Environmental hazards
Pollutants
Tobacco smoke or nitrous oxide
Neighborhood contexts
Impoverishment
High childcare burden to adult ratio
High population turnover
Female-headed households
High child abuse and neglect
Contexts (cont.)
Parents’ work context
Childcare context
Public policy context
