05-06-2009, 02:00 PM
Slow growth and poor emotional support raise the lifetime risk of poor health and reduce physical, cognitive and emotional functioning in adulthood.
As cognitive, emotional and sensory inputs program the brain’s responses, insecure emotional attachment and poor stimulation can lead to reduced readiness for school, low educational attainment, problem behaviour and the risk of social marginalisation in adulthood.
Good health-related habits, such as eating sensibly, exercising and not smoking, are associated with parental and peer group examples and with good education. Slow or retarded physical growth in childhood is associated with reduced cardiovascular, respiratory, pancreatic and kidney development and function which increases the risk of illness in childhood.
Accidents are the main threat to life among children in our community. One hundred years ago, infectious diseases were the main cause of death in childhood, however, with the success of our immunisation campaigns and the introduction of antibiotics, death from infection has decreased dramatically.
It is vital that these diseases do not return and all parents are strongly encouraged to have their children immunised against infectious diseases.
There has been a marked decline in deaths due to SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or 'cot death') and congenital abnormalities have now replaced SIDS (cot death) as the major cause of death in infants aged 1-11 months.
There has been a marked decline in the birth prevalence of neural tube defects closely related to the recognition of the importance of folic acid supplementation in the diet of women before they become pregnant and in the early stages of pregnancy.
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As cognitive, emotional and sensory inputs program the brain’s responses, insecure emotional attachment and poor stimulation can lead to reduced readiness for school, low educational attainment, problem behaviour and the risk of social marginalisation in adulthood.
Good health-related habits, such as eating sensibly, exercising and not smoking, are associated with parental and peer group examples and with good education. Slow or retarded physical growth in childhood is associated with reduced cardiovascular, respiratory, pancreatic and kidney development and function which increases the risk of illness in childhood.
Accidents are the main threat to life among children in our community. One hundred years ago, infectious diseases were the main cause of death in childhood, however, with the success of our immunisation campaigns and the introduction of antibiotics, death from infection has decreased dramatically.
It is vital that these diseases do not return and all parents are strongly encouraged to have their children immunised against infectious diseases.
There has been a marked decline in deaths due to SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or 'cot death') and congenital abnormalities have now replaced SIDS (cot death) as the major cause of death in infants aged 1-11 months.
There has been a marked decline in the birth prevalence of neural tube defects closely related to the recognition of the importance of folic acid supplementation in the diet of women before they become pregnant and in the early stages of pregnancy.
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