LESSON 1.2

Introduction to Children’s Health

What is children’s health?

Children’s health is the extent to which an individual child or groups of children are able or enabled to:

  • develop and realize their potential
  • satisfy their needs
  • develop the capacities that allow them to interact successfully with their biological, physical, and social environment

Source: Kuo et al., 2012

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Children’s health is really the extent to which they can attain their full potential (physically, emotionally, socially) and successfully engage within their environment.