HLTC23H3 Lecture Notes - Positive Feedback, The Sequence, Biological Determinism
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A child is defined as anyone between the age of 0-18: infancy refers to anyone between the age of 1 month to 1 year, toddler refers to anyone between the age of 1 to 2 years. Not proficient with motor skills: childhood refers to anyone from birth to puberty, adolescence is between 13 to 21. All individuals are exposed to different situations: what happens in childhood impacts our long-term health. Exposures to different environments have different effects on the child: in general, children with better opportunities do better in life, research shows that healthy children also do better in life, focus on child health and development. Improve health and outcome for the child (long-term) Biological features: factors that affect childhood development are related to biology, complete set of genetic material within an individual is referred to as a genome. A human genome consists of two sets of 23 chromosomes.
