• Outlines activities that are vital to achieving the health goals of the Children''s Health Charter, setting forth specific guidance to
  • Increase family knowledge, skills, and participation in health-promoting and prevention activities.
  • Address the needs of children and youth with special health care needs through enhanced identification and services.
  • Enhance health care professionals'' knowledge, skills, and practice of developmentally appropriate health care in the context of family and community.
  • Promote desired social, developmental, and health outcomes of infants, children, and adolescents.
  • Foster partnerships between families, health care professionals, and communities.
• Section I is organized into 10 themes common to all stages of child development, with special emphasis on 2 new significant challenges: mental health and healthy weight.
• Section II focuses on specific guidance for each of 31 age-based health care visits, where each visit enumerates 5 priorities for that visit, including sample questions and discussion points for both parent and child.

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