This presentation explains about the importance of child health care, the measures taken to assure good health care and the complications if they are neglected.

1. Care of the
Pre-school child
1-4
years

2. Importance of Pre- School Child
Mortality

3. Child Health Problems

4. Child health
problems

5. Low birth weight
Types:
•Spontaenous pre term birth: Adolescent pregnancy,
infectious diseases, malnutrition, smoking, alcohol, diabetes
•Provider- initiated pre-term birth:
Less than
2.5kg at
birth

6. Malnutrition
Iodine
Deficiency
Cretinism, goitre,
brain damage
Nutritional Anemia
Leads to fatigue
Protein Energy Malnutrition
Vitamin A
Deficiency
Leading cause of
blindness due to
corneal destruction

7. Growth charts

8. Advantages
• Growth monitoring
• Diagnostic tool
• Planning and policy
making
• Educational tool
• Tool of action
• Teaching

9. WHO Growth Chart

10. Percentile of the
reference value

11. Indian Growth Chart

12. Flattening of the growth curve-
Earliest sign of PEM

13. Infectious diseases &
Parasitic infestations

14. National Immunization Schedule
At birth BCG
Hep B
OPV – 0 dose
6 weeks – 10 weeks – 14 weeks OPV
Pentavalent (diphtheria, pertusis,
tetanus, Hemophilus influenza B, Hep
B)
End of 9th
month Measles – 1st
dose
1 ½ years DPT
Measles – 2nd
dose
5 years DPT- 2nd
dose
10 years – 16 years TT only.