El programa de salud infantil,¿qué, quién, cuántas veces?
- María Jesús Esparza Olcina
- F. J. Soriano Faura
- J. Colomer Revuelta
- O. Cortés Rico
- J. Galbe Sánchez-Ventura
- J. García Aguado
- A. Martínez Rubio
- J. M. Mengual Gil
- M. Merino Moína
- C. R. Pallás Alonso
- F. J. Sánchez Ruiz-Cabello
ISSN: 1696-358X
Año de publicación: 2013
Volumen: 43
Número: 1
Páginas: 11-15
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Boletín de la Sociedad de Pediatría de Aragón, La Rioja y Soria
Resumen
The well child program (WCP) is the frame for the preventive activities to be carried out in children. There is controversy onsome aspects of the WCP, in its contents as well as in its implementation. There are only a few preventive activities (some ofthem of intervention, other of screening and other of brief counseling) that have good or sufficient evidence to be performedin the general population, and other are effective only if implemented in population at risk.According to population’s features, professionals’ work overload, skills and preferences, the pediatric team should decide thevisits to be implemented by the nurse or by the pediatrician, or both.Concerning to the number of visits, the group PrevInfad proposes a total of 10 visits in children 0 to 14 years old, one antenatalvisit and one in adolescents 16 to 18 years old. The objective is to get the best efficiency by reducing the number of visits to theleast necessary to assure that the most effective activities are implemented, and coinciding with the immunization schedule. TheWCP contents and organization should be a flexible process that adapts to research updates and to social changes and needs.