Our Healthy Kids Project (HKP) here at ACCESS aims to promote healthier lifestyles for children, ages 5-10 years old, and their parents through active learning about physical activity, nutrition, environmental health and mental health. The goal of HKP is to try to help make living a healthy life fun and easy while engaging not only children but parents. This is the perfect opportunity for families to learn how daily behaviors impact personal health now and their influence on future health. It is possible to make a large impact by just a small change. Group sessions include height, weight, and blood pressure screening for children, health screenings and referrals, food preparation techniques, how to read nutrition labels, physical activity opportunities, safer household cleansers and a fieldtrip for families who attend regularly. For more information, please contact Elizabeth Hughes, MPH Coordinator, Healthy Kids Project at ehughes@accesscommunity.org
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Car Seat Safety
More than 80% of car seats are installed incorrectly, which means four out of five children are improperly restrained and at risk for injury. Watch as Claudia Romo, an injury prevention specialist and certified passenger safety technician at Children’s, demonstrates how to select the right seat for your child and how to properly install an infant car seat.
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Washington Hospital: Healthy Children – Potty Training
Child rearing can be a rewarding, but sometimes frustrating experience. Over the years we’ve helped parents, stepparents, grandparents, and other caregivers deal with difficult issues, such as toilet training, sleep problems in infants, behavioral issues, and a host of other concerns. To make things a bit easier for parents to find answers to questions about children’s health and behavior … from infancy through puberty … Washington Hospital in Fremont, California has developed a series of short videos called Healthy Children. Each program provides tips from physicians in answer to parents’ most common questions about children’s health.
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Newborn Development Week 1 (Baby Health Guru)
Your newborn will keep you busy as you will be feeding, and changing, your baby pretty much constantly. However, most newborns sleep up to 18 hours a day. Baby.Healthguru.com
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World Bank Praxis Discussion Series: Maternal and Child Health
Speakers: Dr. Nicole Wong Doo from the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Mahboba Rawi OAM, the Founder of Mahboba’s Promise and Dr. Nesrin Varol from the University of Sydney. Moderator: Olivia Rousset Recorded: 6 May 2011 Health-related Millennium Development Goals have proved to be among the most challenging to achieve, especially in terms of reducing child and maternal mortality rates. Most regions of the world are off track. Every year nearly 11 million children die before the age of five and every day 1000 women die as a result of pregnancy and childbirth. Most of these deaths are from easily preventable causes, and the vast majority occur in developing countries. Over recent years there has been increased collaboration on health, resulting in a growing number of partnerships between the public and private sectors. However, there needs to be continued commitment and investment to ensure that women and children across the world can access their right to health.