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    Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents

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    4th Ed.

    Judith S. Shaw EdD, MPH, RN, FAAP; Paula M. Duncan MD, FAAP; Joseph F. Hagan Jr MD, FAAP

    ISBN-13: 978-1-61002-022-0

    eISBN-13: 978-1-61002-023-7

    Pediatrics, Nursing

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    This essential resource provides key background information and recommendations for themes critical to healthy child development along with well-child supervision standards for 31 age-based visits—from Newborn through 21 Years. The result: better health care, more efficient visits, stronger partnerships with children and families, and better ability to keep up with changes in family, communities, and society that affect a child’s health.

    What’s in the Bright Futures Guidelines, Fourth Edition?
    Twelve health promotion themes:

    • • Promoting Lifelong Health for Families and Communities - NEW
    • • Promoting Family Support
    • • Promoting Health for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs - NEW
    • • Promoting Healthy Development
    • • Promoting Mental Health
    • • Promoting Healthy Weight
    • • Promoting Healthy Nutrition
    • • Promoting Physical Activity
    • • Promoting Oral Health
    • • Promoting Healthy Sexual Development and Sexuality
    • • Promoting the Healthy and Safe Use of Social Media - NEW
    • • Promoting Safety and Injury Prevention

    Thirty-one age-based health supervision visits—Newborn to 21 Years
    All the information and guidance that’s needed to give children optimal health outcomes:

    • • Context
    • • Health Supervision
    • • History
    • • Surveillance of Development
    • • Review of Systems
    • • Observation of Parent-Child Interaction
    • • Physical Examination
    • • Medical Screening
    • • Immunizations
    • • Anticipatory Guidance

    What’s NEW in the 4th Edition?

    • • Builds upon previous editions with new and updated content that reflects the latest research
    • • Presents more recommendations supported by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, CDC Community Guide, Cochrane, and high-quality peer reviewed publications
    • • Includes three new health promotion themes
    • • Promoting Lifelong Health for Families and Communities
    • • Promoting Health for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs
    • • Promoting the Healthy and Safe Use of Social Media
    • • New screen time recommendations
    • • Provides greater focus on lifelong physical and mental health
    • • Weaves social determinants of health throughout the Visits, allowing health care professionals to consider social factors like food insecurity, violence, and drug use that may affect a child’s and family’s health
    • • Features updated Milestones of Development and Developmental Surveillance questions
    • • Provides new clinical content that informs health care professionals about the latest recommendations and provides guidance on how to implement them in practice
    • • Maternal depression screening, Safe sleep, Iron supplementation in breast fed infants, Fluoride varnish, Dyslipidemia blood screening
    • • Includes updates to several Adolescent screenings
    • • Cervical dysplasia, Depression, Dyslipidemia, Hearing, Vision, Tobacco/alcohol/drugs, STIs
    • • With Bright Futures, health care professionals can accomplish 4 tasks in 18 minutes!
    • • Disease detection
    • • Disease prevention
    • • Health promotion
    • • Anticipatory guidance

    What is Bright Futures?

    • • A set of theory-based, evidence-driven, and systems-oriented principles, strategies, and tools that health care professionals can use to improve the health and well-being of children through culturally appropriate interventions. Bright Futures addresses the current and emerging health promotion needs of families, clinical practices, communities, health systems, and policymakers.
    • • The Bright Futures Guidelines is recognized as the blueprint for health supervision visits for all children.
    • • Bright Futures is the health promotion and disease prevention part of the patient-centered medical home.

    Who can use Bright Futures?

    • • Child health professionals and practice staff who directly provide primary care
    • • Parents and youth who participate in well-child visits
    • • Public Health Professionals
    • • Policymakers
    • • Pediatric Educators
    • • MD Residents

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