What threats to their health and wellness do preschool children experience?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
• For the average child the preschool years are relatively noneventful, but the following are threats to health and wellness
• Nutrition
• Most prevalent nutritional disorder in U.S. is iron-deficiency anemia
• Concerns for obesity
• Major Illnesses
• Most prevalent major illness to strike preschool children is cancer, usually leukemia
• AIDS is a threat to preschool children, both in terms of the disease in the child and the disruption to family when it affects other family members
• Emotional Illnesses
• There is an increase in the number of preschool children medicated for emotional illness
• Injuries
• The greatest risk is injury
• Increased risk because children are active but still practicing the finer aspects of motor development
• Lead poisoning and other environmental toxins
• Child abuse – Physical and psychological
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