Chapter One Flashcards
Preventative Health
Engaging in behaviors that help to maintain and enhance ones health status includes concern for certain social issues affecting the populations health and environment
Attachment
An emotional connection established between infants and their parents or primary caregivers
Development
The process of intellectual growth and change
Deciduous teeth
A child’s initial set of teeth; this set is temporary and gradually begins to fall out at about 5 years of age
Food insecurity
Uncertain or limited access to a reliable source of food
Flurosis
White or brown spits that form on children’s teeth due to excessive fluoride intake
Head circumference
The distance around the head obtained by measuring over the forehead and Cindy protuberance on the back of the head it is an indication of normal or abnormal growth and development of the brain and central nervous system
Hereditary
The transmission of certain genetic material and characteristics from biological parents to child at the time of conception
Normal
Average
Norms
An expression (weeks, months, years) of when a child is likely to demonstrate certain developmental skills
Growth
Increase in size of any body part or of the entire body
Nutrients
The chemical substances in food
Predisposition
Having an increased chance or susceptibility
Resistance
The ability to avoid infection or illness
Sedentary
Unusually slow or sluggish; a lifestyle that implies inactivity
