Product Overview
This essential resource provides key background information and recommendations for themes critical to healthy child development along with well-child supervision standards for 31 age-based visitsfrom Newborn through 21 Years.
Whats in the Bright Futures Guidelines, Fourth Edition?
Twelve health promotion themes addressing
lifelong health for families and communities NEW
family support
health for children and youth with special health care needs NEW
healthy development
mental health
healthy weight
healthy nutrition
physical activity
oral health
healthy adolescent development
healthy and safe use of social media NEW
safety and injury prevention
31 age-based health supervision visitsNewborn to 21 Years
All the information and guidance thats needed to give children optimal health outcomes
-Context
-Health Supervision
-History
-Surveillance of Development
-Review of Systems
-Observation of Parent-Child Interaction
-Physical Examination
-Medical Screening
-Immunizations
-Anticipatory Guidance
Whats NEW in the 4th Edition?
Builds upon previous editions with new and updated content that reflects the latest research.
Incorporates evidence-driven recommendations.
Includes three new health promotion themes:
-Promoting Lifelong Health for Families and Communities
-Promoting Health for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs
-Promoting the Healthy and Safe Use of Social Media
Includes new screen time recommendations
Provides greater focus on lifelong physical and mental health
-Weaves social determinants of health throughout the Visits, allowing health care professionals to consider social factors like food insecurity, violence, and drug use that may affect a childs and familys health
-Features updated Milestones of Development and Developmental Surveillance questions
Provides new clinical content that informs health care professionals about the latest recommendations and provides guidance on how to implement them in practice:
-Maternal depression screening, Safe sleep, Iron supplementation in breast fed infants, Fluoride varnish, Dyslipidemia blood screening
Includes updates to several Adolescent screenings
With Bright Futures, health care professionals can accomplish 4 tasks in 18 minutes!
Disease detection
Disease prevention
Health promotion
Anticipatory guidance
What is Bright Futures?
A set of theory-based, evidence-driven, and systems-oriented principles, strategies, and tools that health care professionals can use to improve the health and well-being of children through culturally appropriate interventions. Bright Futures addresses the current and emerging health promotion needs of families, clinical practices, communities, health systems, and policymakers.
The Bright Futures Guidelines are the blueprint for health supervision visits for all children.
Bright Futures is the health promotion and disease prevention part of the patient-centered medical home.
Who can use Bright Futures?
Child health professionals and practice staff who directly provide primary care
Parents and youth who participate in well-child visits
Public Health Professionals
Policymakers
Pediatric Educators
MD Residents
Whats in the Bright Futures Guidelines, Fourth Edition?
Twelve health promotion themes addressing
lifelong health for families and communities NEW
family support
health for children and youth with special health care needs NEW
healthy development
mental health
healthy weight
healthy nutrition
physical activity
oral health
healthy adolescent development
healthy and safe use of social media NEW
safety and injury prevention
31 age-based health supervision visitsNewborn to 21 Years
All the information and guidance thats needed to give children optimal health outcomes
-Context
-Health Supervision
-History
-Surveillance of Development
-Review of Systems
-Observation of Parent-Child Interaction
-Physical Examination
-Medical Screening
-Immunizations
-Anticipatory Guidance
Whats NEW in the 4th Edition?
Builds upon previous editions with new and updated content that reflects the latest research.
Incorporates evidence-driven recommendations.
Includes three new health promotion themes:
-Promoting Lifelong Health for Families and Communities
-Promoting Health for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs
-Promoting the Healthy and Safe Use of Social Media
Includes new screen time recommendations
Provides greater focus on lifelong physical and mental health
-Weaves social determinants of health throughout the Visits, allowing health care professionals to consider social factors like food insecurity, violence, and drug use that may affect a childs and familys health
-Features updated Milestones of Development and Developmental Surveillance questions
Provides new clinical content that informs health care professionals about the latest recommendations and provides guidance on how to implement them in practice:
-Maternal depression screening, Safe sleep, Iron supplementation in breast fed infants, Fluoride varnish, Dyslipidemia blood screening
Includes updates to several Adolescent screenings
With Bright Futures, health care professionals can accomplish 4 tasks in 18 minutes!
Disease detection
Disease prevention
Health promotion
Anticipatory guidance
What is Bright Futures?
A set of theory-based, evidence-driven, and systems-oriented principles, strategies, and tools that health care professionals can use to improve the health and well-being of children through culturally appropriate interventions. Bright Futures addresses the current and emerging health promotion needs of families, clinical practices, communities, health systems, and policymakers.
The Bright Futures Guidelines are the blueprint for health supervision visits for all children.
Bright Futures is the health promotion and disease prevention part of the patient-centered medical home.
Who can use Bright Futures?
Child health professionals and practice staff who directly provide primary care
Parents and youth who participate in well-child visits
Public Health Professionals
Policymakers
Pediatric Educators
MD Residents
