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This text helps to recognize potential growth problems. It covers the procedures of measuring children, recognizing abnormal growth, and data management of the conditions. One chapter contains 35 case histories, including centile charts and patients' photographs, covering common growth disorders.
Do certain eating disorders directly correlate with neglect and abuse? What do eating and growth disorders have in common? And, are some treatment methods more successful than others in treating such disorders? In Eating and Growth Disorders in Infants and Children Woolston examines the relevant literature on each major eating and growth disorder from infancy through childhood. Among the disorders considered are failure to thrive, psychosocial dwarfism, rumination, pica, obesity, and anorexia nervosa. The author describes the emergence and course of each specific disorder, discusses known or suspected risk factors, and alerts the reader to unresolved clinical and research issues. Woolston al...
Growth monitoring is increasingly being carried out by primary health care teams and forms a key part of the National Guidelines on Child Surveillance. A Clinicians' Guide to Growth Disorders presents current knowledge in a compact and user-friendly format providing primary care workers who detect growth abnormalities with practical, clinical guidance. The book follows the ""Clinicians' Guide"" format and is written in a digestible style with an attractive layout. It provides a comprehensive account from a physician's viewpoint of growth disorders in children - including growth abnormalities such as delayed and precocious puberty, obesity and failure to thrive. Correct growth measurement is ...
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