PSYB65H3 Lecture 4: HLTB02 Lecture 4.docx
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Lecture 4: measures of child health and cognitive development. 10/10/2012: know what kind of child care services need to be devised based on our understanding of child health. If you know that children are susceptible to a certain disease at a particular age, how can we devise a service that can reduce the incidence of the disease: general child health performance. How is your child fairing against the norm: children go through many different developmental stages (all specific to domains) Know that certain pathways will impact the future health of a child (ex: latent, cumulative, etc. ) Important to recognize when children progress slowly through stages or do not surpass stages at all (ex: developmental disability or child abuse: children"s basic physiology differs from that of adults. Children have less tolerance to pollutants than adults. Physiological measures: measures of the physical condition or state of the body, how the body physically works.
