What it is
The screening that measures height, weight, and head circumference
What is Growth Assessment
This exam helps prevent tooth decay, pain, and tooth loss.
What is Dental Screening and Examination?
These might cause mild symptoms, such as pain at the injection site or fever, although the benefits are far greater than the risks.
What are immunizations?
This screening requires a blood test usually done by pricking the finger.
What is anemia screening?
This condition can be caused by low iron in the diet, lead poisoning, sickle cell disease, and other blood disorders.
What is Anemia?
This procedure helps identify and treat health problems, and provides families with guidance on child health and development.
What is a Medical/Physical Examination?
This condition might cause stomach cramps, diarrhea, anemia, fatigue, and delay in growth.
What are intestinal parasites?
This screening involves a skin test—Mantoux/PPD—to look for a reaction that indicates infection.
What is Tuberculin Testing?
This screening checks understanding, thinking, communication, social skills, physical coordination, and self-help skills.
What is Developmental Screening?
This screening can lead to antibiotic treatment to prevent severe pneumonia, weight loss, meningitis, bone disease, and death?
What is Tuberculin Testing?
These three things are possible signs of developmental delay at three years of age.
What are the child cannot follow simple directions, make two-word sentences, copy a circle, or take off her own clothes?
(Any three)
This screening involves a laboratory test of stool samples?
What is Intestinal Parasite Screening?
These are ten diseases for which immunizations protect children.
What is chickenpox, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, Hemophilus influenza B (HIB), and hepatitis B
Three problems that growth assessment can identify.
What is Failure to thrive,” obesity, and disproportionately large or small head growth?
These three problems are found through nutrition assessment.
What are dietary deficiencies, feeding difficulties, and food allergies?
This screening involves a special blood test and asking the family about the age of their home, construction, or peeling paint, as well as asking about the use of specific home remedies.
What is Lead Screening?
This screening checks for a problem that is rare in children which could lead to heart disease and stroke.
What is Blood Pressure Screening?
These three screenings aim to prevent difficulties in communication, behavior, and relationships.
What is Hearing, speech and language, and developmental/mental health assessment?
Three possible signs of vision problems are
What are eyes crossed or pointing out, squinting, short attention for visual tasks, holding materials very close to the face, difficulty catching balls, complaints of eye discomfort or headache
(Any three)
These two screenings use a standardized screening test or skills checklist.
What is Speech/language and developmental/mental health assessment?