Healthof Child : Children's health, or pediatrics, concentrates
on the well-being of children from conception through youth. It is crucially
concerned with all parts of children's development and growth and with the
unique opportunity that every child has to achieve their maximum potential as a
healthy adult.
Children's health was at one time a part of adult medicine.
It developed in the nineteenth and mid twentieth century as a medical specialty
because of the gradual awareness that the health issues of children are
different from those of adults. It was likewise recognized that a child's
reaction to disease, medications, and the environment depends upon the age of
the kid.
There are numerous aspects to children's health. Any
organization of these aspects of child health is necessarily arbitrary. For
instance, the topics could be presented in sequential order. However, it seems
most logical to begin toward the starting -- with the elements that focus a
child's healthy development and growth.
