Bright Futures, 4th edition

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 visits—from newborn through 21 years.

What’s 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 visits—Newborn to 21 Years

All the information and guidance that’s 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 

What’s NEW in the 4th Edition?

• Builds upon previous editions with new and updated content that reflects the latest research.
• Incorporates more 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 child’s and family’s 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.

ISBN Paperback:  978-1-61002-022-0

ISBN eBook: 978-1-61002-023-7 

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