Children at Health Risk Author:Michael S. Clement The face of the child seen by heath care providers today is changing. Children at Health Risk provides a unique resource for clinicians and residents to learn of these new health care challenges. Due to increased diversity in the population, international adoptions and immigration, there are now several groups of children in the United States... more » that have access to healthcare with problems different from those of the usual group of children seen on a regular basis by practitioners. These children may have problems or conditions that could be easily corrected even without regular, routine care. The clinician only needs to be aware of these potential problems in specific childhood populations. Children at Health Risk: · Alerts healthcare providers to needs of special populations that do not have on-going healthcare
· Highlights the diseases and conditions that may go untreated in specific child populations
· Includes clinical vignettes of real-life cases to illustrate specific health problems
· Offers residents and clinicians a specialty guide book for this pediatric/family medicine topic
· Provides discussion of possible interventions« less