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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Susan S. Aronson, MD, FAAP, PA Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics, Early Childhood Education Linkage System (ECELS), Rosemont Bus. Campus, Building 2, Suite 307, 919 Conestoga Rd., Rosemont, PA 19010, 610-520-3662, saronson@bellatlantic.net, Phyllis Stubbs-Wynn, MD, MPH, Infant and Early Childhood Branch, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 18A-37, Rockville, MD 20857, and Marilyn J. Krajicek, EdD, RN, FAAN, School of Nursing, University of Colorado, Campus Mail Stop F541, PO Box 6508, Aurora, CO 80045.
On January 22, 2002, the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, and the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care released the second edition of Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs. The standards, written by child care health and safety experts, promote healthy child care environments that allow the child to develop properly and ensure school readiness. Exclusion criteria for ill children have been hotly debated at state public health levels, between child care director and parent, between health professional and parent/child care director, and among child care staff. New updated exclusion criteria for such illnesses as head lice, scabies, and diarrhea will be presented. How to change child care exclusion policies to comply with these new guidelines, both at the programmatic level and the state licensing level, will be strategized with participants.
Learning Objectives:
Keywords: Child Care, Child Health
Related Web page: nrc.uchsc.edu
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: American Public Health Association
American Academy of Pediatrics
National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care
(These three organizations developed the standards that will be discussed.)
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.