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| The process of understanding upcoming developmental needs and then teaching caretakers to meet those needs. |
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| Cavities, tooth decay, decalcification of enamel and dentin. |
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| developmental surveillance |
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| A flexible, continuous process of skilled observations of children's fine and gross motor skills, language, and psychosocial behavior milestones during child health visits. |
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| Categories or foci of developmental progression, including fine motor skills, gross motor skills, language, self-help skills, social skills, and reading. |
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| A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. |
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| health maintenance (health protection) |
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| Activities that preserve an individual's present state of health and prevent disease or injury occurrence. |
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| Activities that increase well-being, enhance wellness or health, and lead to actualization of positive health potential; strategies that seek to foster conditions to allow populations to be healthy and to make healthy choices. |
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| Services that focus on disease and injury prevention (health maintenance), growth and developmental surveillance, and health promotion at key intervals during the child's life. |
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| A relationship in which participants join together to ensure healthcare delivery in a way that recognizes the critical role and contribution of each partner in promoting health, preventing illness, and managing healthcare conditions. |
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| pediatric healthcare home (medial home) |
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| Site of comprehensive health care by a pediatric healthcare professional. |
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| Activities that decrease opportunity for illness or injury. |
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| The extent to which the same score is obtained when an instrument or scale is used either by different persons or by the same person at different times. |
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| A procedure used to detect the possible presence of a health condition before symptoms are apparent, usually conducted on large groups of individuals at risk for a condition. |
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| Early diagnosis and treatment of a condition to lessen its severity. |
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| A person's belief that he or she can change behavior to produce a desired outcome. |
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| The ability of a test to accurately identify those with a condition being tested; a high-sensitivity test is able to detect the condition when only a small amount of the indicator is present or early in the disease process. |
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| The ability of a test to exclude those who do not have the condition being tested. |
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| Belief in a connection with a greater power that guides a person to strive for inspiration, respect, meaning, and purpose in life. |
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| A continuous process in which skilled observations are carried out in collaboration with families, specialists, child care providers, and other professionals. |
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| The unique characteristic style of activity, mood, and reaction of an infant, made up of genetically derived characteristics that evolve and develop over time and often underlie interaction and behavior. |
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| Activities designed to rehabilitate or restore optimum function. |
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| A test's ability to measure the characteristics it is established to measure. |
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