PED week 1 NOTES /MIDTERM GUIDE

PED week 1 |PED week 1 Healthy People 2020:  Attain a high quality, longer lives, free of disease, disability, injury, and premature death  Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups  Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all  Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages  There are 3 main initiative goals in Healthy People 2020: access to health care, immunization, and tobacco use Informed Consent: A child should assent (be included) by the age of 8 or 9 Legal competent: 18 years old, emancipated minor, mature minor What care can teenagers get without the presence of their parents?  Birth control, abortions, STD screenings