HLTC23H3 Lecture Notes - Century Child, Infant Mortality, Sigmund Freud
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2 assignments and 1 final exam, tutorials, 30x2 + 30 + 10. No class reader, course content on intranet. Death upon conversation with neighbor or in general. No reader suitable, all articles are accessible from intranet or library resources. Tutorial dates will be posted later on, aiming for 5. This course will examine childhood as a cultural institution, and overview of bio-psychosocial development. To examine environmental factors that influence development, global health threats to child health and welfare, to promote resilience in children, covering issues that face children. This lecture: define the childhood infancy, describe the natural history of childhood, talk about where we are now, globally with respect to childhood, how this impacts the global health of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social/cultural artifact. It can be longer or shorter depending on several factors. Infancy is a biologically driven event with a genetically timed duration.
