Child and Adolescent Health

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1. Identify and discuss major indicators of child and adolescents health status.

2. Describe and discuss the social determinants of child and adolescent health.

3. Mention and discuss at least 2 public programs and prevention strategies targeted to children's health.

4. Mention and discuss the individual and societal costs of poor child health status.

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Child and Adolescent Health

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March 27th , 2019

Some of the major indicators of child and adolescents health status can be easily
identified just by watching their behavior. Good health involves having physical, mental and
social. Some of the major indicators that show that a child or an adolescent is not healthy
include:


Physical attributes – For some diseases, the appearance of a child will show that they are
suffering from a disease. Some of the symptoms include: excessive weight loss and a
wrinkled skin, sunken eyes, general body weakness, skin rashes, vomiting, diarrhea,
jaundice and breathing problems.



Mental attributes – A sick child or adolescent will have signs like; constant crying,
frequent headaches, sudden emotional outbursts, insomnia and hallucinations



Social attributes of a sick child or adolescent include: a withdrawn attitude where the
child doesn’t want to play, distraction, constant mood changes and quick lack of interest
in certain activities (A. Sullivan & Hogan, 1998).

For both children and adolescents, there are a number of social determinants of health
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