Interpretation of health terms for children and adolescents

Hygiene of children and adolescents is a medical field about the health of children and adolescents.

1. Children: refers to people from 28 days after birth to 14 years old.

2. Teenagers: refers to people aged from 14 to 18.

3. Growth and development: refers to the development and changes of body shape, organs and systems from birth to adulthood.

4. Premature baby: refers to the fetus less than 37 weeks pregnant.

5. Low birth weight infants: infants weighing less than 2,500 grams at birth.

6. National Children's Immunization Plan: refers to a plan organized and implemented by the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China and the provincial health administrative department, aiming at enabling all children to obtain necessary vaccination to improve their immunity and prevent infectious diseases and other threats to children's health.

7. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS): It refers to one of the causes of infant death that has attracted much attention. Infants die suddenly during sleep.

8. Adolescence: refers to the period of important physiological changes in the human body. Women enter puberty at the age of 8- 13, and men enter puberty at the age of 9- 14.

9. Adolescent psychological problems: refer to psychological problems caused by the changes of physiological, psychological and social environment in adolescence, such as weak self-identity, emotional fluctuation and abnormal behavior.

10. Adolescent health education: refers to a series of educational activities and projects to popularize health knowledge, improve the health level of adolescents and promote their healthy growth through education.

The main learning groups of child and adolescent health

1, medical college students, such as clinical medicine, preventive medicine, public health, etc.

2, pediatricians, nurses and other clinical medical workers.

3, the school infirmary doctors, health workers and other professionals engaged in school health management.

4. Medical staff in community health service stations and children's hospitals.

5. Non-professionals such as parents and nannies understand and master children's health problems.

6. Scholars and experts engaged in health research of children and adolescents.

The research population of child and adolescent hygiene is relatively extensive, including not only medical professionals, but also parents and non-professionals This is because everyone needs to understand the health problems of children and adolescents and master basic health knowledge in order to better protect and care for children.

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