Health Care and Promotion for Infants and Toddlers

Peking University via Coursera

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Introduction

You can learn how to take care of newborns, infants and toddlers in daily life, for example, breastfeeding, skin care, dental care, etc.

You will learn how to promote children's growth and development, including kangaroo mother care, touching, play, language promotion skills, etc..

You will know how to prevent common illnesses in newborns, infants and toddlers and care for them properly.

Syllabus

Unit 1 Neonatal health care (1)

This unit covers characteristics of newborns, newborn daily parenting, breastfeeding, and supplementary feeding.

Unit 2 Neonatal health care (2)

This unit covers kangaroo mother care, neonatal jaundice, and special physiological manifestations in neonates.

Unit 3 Infant health care

This unit addresses the infant feeding, neuropsychological development of infants and the promotion, motor development of infants and the promotion, language development of infants and the promotion.

Unit 4 The toddler’s health care

Here, you will learn the characteristics of toddlers (e.g., physiologic function, language and motor development, psychosocial development); care of toddlers (e.g., nutritional requirements and feeding, toilet training), and dental health.

Unit 5 Early childhood development

In this unit, we will learn the assessment of development, early childhood development promotion, play, and physical exercise.

Unit 6 Childhood vaccination

Next, we turn our attention to the immunization program and the procedure of vaccination; we will also consider how to cope with vaccination reactions.

Unit 7 Prevention and treatment of common infectious diseases in childhood

The unit introduces measles, chickenpox and neonatal syphilis.

Unit 8 Management of common health problems in childhood (1)

In this unit, you will learn foreign body airway obstruction, fever, pneumonia and diarrhea.

Unit 9 Management of common health problems in childhood (2)

In this unit, you will learn health problems related to nutrition, including iron deficiency anemia, vitamin D deficiency rickets, obesity and malnutrition.