PSYC 3170 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 Reading 4
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Ch. 6 october 18: developmental, gender, and socio cultural factors in health, development and health. To provide the mother a healthy, full term pregnancy and rapid recovery after a normal delivery. To facilitate the live birth of a normal baby, free of congenital or developmental damage. To help both mother and father achieve the knowledge and capacity to provide for the baby"s physical, emotional, and social needs. To establish immunity against specified infectious diseases. To detect and prevent certain other diseases and problems before irreparable damage occurs. To facilitate the child"s optimal physical, emotional, and social growth and development. To establish healthy behavioural patterns for nutrition, exercise, study, recreation, and family life, as a foundation for a healthy lifetime lifestyle. To reinforce healthy behaviour patterns, and discourage negative ones, in physical fitness, nutrition, exercise, study, work, recreation, sex, individual relations, driving, smoking, alcohol, and drugs.