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Ask Dr. Sue - New Recommendations for Child Check Ups and Winter Brings Strep Throats

by Susan S. Aronson, MD
November/December 1995
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New Recommendations for Child Check Ups

Acting together, the AAP and the United States Public Health Service publish revised recommendations for immunization whenever there is a new vaccine or new way to use vaccine. These changes occur frequently. Child care providers must be sure to use the current immunization schedule to check children's records. The immunization schedule (see page xx) was revised in August 1995. Any further revisions will be published in the January 1996 issue of Pediatrics.

Usually, children receive immunizations at check-up visits. However, children need other preventive services, too. At routine check ups, doctors look for problems in growth, development, vision, hearing, blood pressure, anemia, tuberculosis, metabolic, oral health, and risk-taking behaviors. In August 1995, the AAP revised the "Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care." The AAP made these changes after studying the findings of a blue-ribbon panel convened by the federal Heath Care Financing Administration (HCFA).

In 1994, the federal government published their recommendations for preventive care for children in a book called Bright Futures.

As a result of close cooperation between the public and private sector, the HCFA and the new AAP schedules are nearly identical. Both HCFA and the AAP ...

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