HLTA03H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Childbirth, Puberty, Secondary Sex Characteristic
Document Summary
* health needs and health goals change throughout our lives and are linked to our age. * also in uenced by our maturational factors such as development of organic systems, physical structures and motor capabilities. * in therms of age, we can categorize our development through life in the following key stages: * central features of this period are physical development of the embryo in the utero and the impact an process of childbirth. * the health and health behaviours of the mother have a big in uence on these features. * central features of this period are the acquisition of language and physical and cognitive development (learning to walk and to process/ make sense of information) * disruption to the development at this stage can have long term effects in many ways. * physical and cognitive development continues with growth spurts and the development of secondary sexual characteristics.
