HLTB21H3 Chapter Notes -Anemia, Rickets, Pellagra
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Hltc23 lecture notes child health and development. Office hours are wednesdays from 11 to 12. Laura will let us know what time is best for her during office hours. Hand in assignments through turn it in. Lecture 1 framing childhood & a biological perspective & genes with the environment & who report. Make sure you have an understanding of the ecological model for the assignment. The who definition of child is 0 8 years. In our course it will be about kids from prenatal stages all the way to puberty (in general). Impacts on health as a child don"t always go away. Even if it may seem that way it still does go onto one"s adolescence. People are different they go through different exposures and cause differences. Healthy children do much better in life. Influences as a child affect health as a child and in the future too. Contextual environment is the social environment around a child (socio-economic factors).