Healthy of Children

All children should be kept well-child check-ups after the schedule recommended by their physician or pediatrician. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that children for well-baby check-up in two weeks, two months, four months, six months, nine months, twelve months, fifteen months, and eighteen months. Well-child visits are recommended, at the age of two, three, four, five, six, eight, 10, and each year more than 21 years.

In addition, a vaccination schedule should be followed to protect against disease and infection. From 2004, the AAP and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that the childhood vaccinations by age two:

1. Hepatitis B. Three doses.
2. Hepatitis A. (in certain geographical areas and certain groups at high risk.)
3. Diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTaP). Four doses.
4. H. influenzae type b (Hib). Four doses.
5. Inactivated polio. Three doses.
6. Pneumococcal conjugate. Three doses.
7. Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR). A dose.
8. Varicella (chickenpox). A dose.

The vaccine against influenza was in the past few years and has been recommended for children of persons. It is not recommended for children under six months. A combined vaccine contains Hexavac called for the vaccine diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, H. Influenza B and hepatitis B in a dose. In clinical studies, in 2004, has been shown safe and effective for young children.

Some vaccines can cause side effects that soft, or more rarely, severe side effects. However, the benefits of vaccination than the health problems of their own.
There are serious chronic diseases and health problems, which are often diagnosed in childhood and can not be vaccinated against the need. These include, but are not limited to, asthma, type I diabetes (juvenile diabetes), leukemia, hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, and.

Mental Health

Children who have difficulties in the areas of language, cognitive development and behavior control in May suffering from mental illness. Mental health problems, including perhaps the children are:

• Attention / Hyperactivity (ADHD). According to AAP, 4-12% of children in school age have ADHD, a condition characterized by poor impulse control and excessive motor activity.
• learning disorders. Learning disabled students to 10.
• Depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. Affective, or mood, disorders in children and adults.
• Eating disorders. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder (BED) often occur in girls.
• Schizophrenia. A mistake by thinking and bizarre behavior, paranoia, affected sense of reality, psychosis and May are diagnosed in childhood.
• Obsessive disorders. In addition, OCD, the fear of disorder in 200 children.
• Autism and Pervasive development disorders. Serious development, which means that the child be removed and no more.
• Mental Retardation. Children under 18 with an IQ of 70 or lower and lower the fitness of how mental remained behind.

Emotional health and social affairs

The children take their first step towards peer-education and social interaction, when they begin to play in the cooperative about four years. Their social development, progress throughout the child as they develop friendships, beginning to be influenced by their peers, and begin to demonstrate the value of the opposite sex.

Leading causes of illness / injury AdolescentsTrauma (this could be a little sports injury gunshot wounds, alcohol or other drug abuse is often a factor): Mental Health (drug addiction, depression, etc.) sexually infectionsAcquired transmitted immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Eating disorders
Factors, adverse effects on social welfare and emotional child are:
1. Violence. Bullying at work can cause serious damage to a child's sense of self-esteem and safety of persons, as experienced violence at school.
2. Drugs and alcohol. Curiosity is inseparable from childhood, and more than 30% of children have experimented with alcohol under the age of 13 Open communications with parent’s expectations drawing on drugs and alcohol is 'importance.
3. Negative sexual experiences. Sexual abuse and assault can emotionally scar a child and instill negative feelings about sexuality and relationships.
4. Family revolt. Divorce, death, and other life events changing dynamics can be of the family with serious consequences for a child. Even a positive event such as the birth of a sibling or a move to a new city and school can put emotional strain on a child.
5. Stress. The pressure to university and activities such as sport can overwhelm to some children.
6. Peer pressure. Although some positive effects, print counterpart is often a source of stress for children. This is particularly true of adolescence, if "installation" everything seems important.