Health, safety, and nutrition for the young child / Lynn R. Marotz

Contents include:

--Children's well-being: what it is and how to achieve it
-- Daily health observations
--Assessing children's health
-- Common chronic medical conditions affecting children's health
-- The infectious process and environmental control
-- Communicable and acute illness: identification and management
-- Creating high-quality environments
-- Safety management
-- management of injuries and acute illness
-- Maltreatment of children: abuse and neglect
-- Planning for children's health and safety education
-- Nutritional guidelines
-- Nutrients that provide energy (carbohydrates, fats and proteins)
-- nutrients that provide growth of body tissues (proteins, minerals and water)
-- Nutrients that regulate body functions (vitamins, minerals, protein and water)
-- Feeding infants
-- Feeding toddlers and young children
-- Planning and serving nutritious and economical meals
-- Food safety
-- Nutrition education concepts and activities.

Includes bibliographical references and index.