Critical Analysis of Children's Health and Wellbeing Leaflets

Children’s Health and Wellbeing
In this assignment I will be critically analysing three different leaflets about children’s health
and wellbeing
Leaflet 1: Emotional Neglect and emotional abuse in pre-school
children (online):
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/advice-and-info/core-info-emotional-
neglect-abuse.pdf
Ensuring best health services for infants and young kids is the mission of every school
and family. The community based services are working upon protective and risk factors for
long term healthcare of children (Sims, 2008). This is mandatory for the early growth and
healthy development of children. Emotional abuse and emotional negligence have a strong
impact over neural structures of the brain, leading to mental stress and negative social
behaviour. Emotional neglect and emotional abuse in infants-The research studies have
shown that out of 5 in every 20 children are undergoing through abandonment and desertion
in childhood. The acknowledgement of emotional abuse or emotional neglect in pre-school
children and providing important solutions for minimal harm is necessary (Drotar, 2002).

Although infants can experience child neglect or child abuse at any age, this is focused
towards 1-5 years old. What child behaviour is of greatest concerns to the parents? Infants are
less interactive with the other kids. The infants may act aggressive and hostile and irritated
while solving quizzes and complain that parents are unable to meet with needs. The kids may
show less imaginative work and become more publicly secluded, leading to less interaction
with other kids. The infants may show lesser attention towards parents and experience
problems in interpreting the emotions.
There are a few factors that make people fit and healthy. First is, social status, a
commonly observed facts is that people who have higher income tend to be happier than
others. And, the other one is education level, poor people do not have access to the education
and this leads to depression and lower-self-esteem (Sorsoli, 2004).
A critical awareness of multidisciplinary partnerships and roles and responsibilities-
Doctors suggest giving vitamin supplements to infants, for a healthy diet. Kids need to
exercise one hour at least in a day, or they may become unfit or over-weight. The parents can
play an ideal role model for the kids and this will be reflected in image of child. A common
problem observed during zero to three years- parents that are prone to excessive drugs or
alcohol, kids can be neglected. Most of the time, parents describe their kids as demanding
(Kennedy et al., 2007). In first few days of birth, the mothers may not be able to engage
emotionally with the kid. In first 2-3 years of the childhood, the parents may not be able to
involve emotionally with their kids. The parents are unable to understand the kid’s signals.
The parents mat get little aggressive and infants may start showing nervousness. A young
toddler will be quiet and they may become aggressive when they reach 2 to 3 years of age.
Most of the kids are occupied with their toys and less bothered when mothers are separated
from infant. The secured kids get upset on separation with mothers and greet with gestures
and smiles on return.

Emotionally abused infants may exhibit growing delay within the first two years
and this is especially visible in language and speech. This has a strong influence on
childhood behaviour, educational learning patterns and social performance. The
medical evidences suggest that fewer children are malleable to stress and have a
different behaviour in older ages. An emotional relationship should be developed
between a caregiver and infant.
Learning outcomes should be:
 have a critical understanding of the definitions of health and
wellbeing and the importance of a positive foundation of health.
 demonstrate knowledge of the interplay of factors that influence
children’s health.
 show a critical awareness of multidisciplinary partnerships and roles
and responsibilities.
Leaflet 2: 5 reasons to vaccinate your child against flue (Kingston hospital)
Health can be defined as-The state of complete mental and physical wellbeing and
non-existence of diseases in a body. Health is a vigorous state of mind resulting from
simultaneous adaptation to environmental changes and stress and the retention of equilibrium