title: Preventive health care for children.
abstract: This article discusses immunization, development, vision, blood pressure, dentition, behavioral, and environmental screening for preschool children. The authors then discuss screening for children in the early school years. Injury and violence prevention and topics of sexuality for the preadolescent are also presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Natarajan
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Olson
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006128:Growth / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007115:Immunization Schedule; D007855:Lead Poisoning / Q000517:prevention & control; D008403:Mass Screening; D010372:Pediatrics; D011322:Primary Prevention; D012723:Sex; D012917:Social Adjustment