title: Preschool health fairs.
abstract: In Vancouver, as in most metropolitan areas, families with preschoolers (infants to five-year-olds) are diverse in language, culture, ethnicity, class and socio-economic status. Immigration, transiency, very young families, single-parent families, poverty and rapid land development are characteristic in some areas. Despite this diversity, the community health nurses of the Vancouver health department have a mandate to provide early intervention and health promotion services for the preschoolers of this population. This has proved to be quite a challenge.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bhagat
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shuster
mesh_terms: D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D006277:Health Fairs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans