UNIT-I
MODERN
CONCEPT
OF CHILD
CARE
PRESENTED BY-
MR.SALMAN
KHAN
ASSISTANT
PROFESSOR
IINSR,LUCKNOW
, \TERMINOLOGIES
Neonate: A neonate is a child under 28 days of age.
Infant: Infancy is the period from birth through
the completion of the 12th month of life.
Toddler: Toddlers are children between the age of
13 months to 3 years of age.
Preschoolers/early childhood: Children between the age
of 3–5-year-old are called preschoolers.
School-going children/middle childhood:
Children between the age group of 6 and 11 years are called
as school- going children.
Adolescence: It is the phase of life between childhood
and adulthood. Early adolescence is the age group
between 12 and 18 years.
Late adolescence is the age group between 19 and 21 years.
, HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD HEALTH
In terms of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a child
means “every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under
the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.
The historical development of pediatrics and pediatrics nursing is as follows:
• 600 to 501 BC: Kashyap was the father of Devas and Asuras as per Indian
mythology. In his book on Ayurveda named as Kashyap Samhita, he has
written chapters on galactagogues, embryology, management of children with
diarrhea, colic, vomiting, dyspnea, hiccups, marasmus.
MODERN
CONCEPT
OF CHILD
CARE
PRESENTED BY-
MR.SALMAN
KHAN
ASSISTANT
PROFESSOR
IINSR,LUCKNOW
, \TERMINOLOGIES
Neonate: A neonate is a child under 28 days of age.
Infant: Infancy is the period from birth through
the completion of the 12th month of life.
Toddler: Toddlers are children between the age of
13 months to 3 years of age.
Preschoolers/early childhood: Children between the age
of 3–5-year-old are called preschoolers.
School-going children/middle childhood:
Children between the age group of 6 and 11 years are called
as school- going children.
Adolescence: It is the phase of life between childhood
and adulthood. Early adolescence is the age group
between 12 and 18 years.
Late adolescence is the age group between 19 and 21 years.
, HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD HEALTH
In terms of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a child
means “every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under
the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.
The historical development of pediatrics and pediatrics nursing is as follows:
• 600 to 501 BC: Kashyap was the father of Devas and Asuras as per Indian
mythology. In his book on Ayurveda named as Kashyap Samhita, he has
written chapters on galactagogues, embryology, management of children with
diarrhea, colic, vomiting, dyspnea, hiccups, marasmus.
