Chapter
Monitoring pregnancy, labor and delivery
The complete physical examination
Monitoring the normal newborn
Common problems in a term newborn
Poor feeding, vomiting and constipation
Confirmatory laboratory and imaging
Chapter 3: The late preterm newborn
Identification of late preterms
Scope and incidence of late preterms
Maternal risk factors for hypoglycemia
Neonatal risk factors for hypoglycemia
Feeding challenges in the late preterm newborn
Chapter 4: Newborn screening
Considerations in developing screening tests: Who should be screened?
How are accurate and reliable screening tests designed?
What are the risks vs. the benefits?
Who are the beneficiaries? Are there adverse consequences to non-beneficiaries?
What is the present understanding of this condition?
Can the condition be remediated?
The Wilson and Jungner screening criteria
Newborn screening for special care infants
Screen repeat at 72 hours
Rescreen at 28 days or upon NICU discharge
The physiology of birth transition
The perils of birth transition
Signs of compromise in the newborn infant
The flow of neonatal resuscitation procedures
Training in neonatal resuscitation
Chapter 6: Born premature: What does it mean?
Factors predisposing to prematurity
Neuropathological considerations
Motor disorders of cerebral palsy
Intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)
Indications for circumcision
Indication for circumcision for religious rite, socio-economic reasons and medical prophylaxis
Sexually transmitted diseases
Circumcision procedure, contraindications and complications
Contraindications to circumcision
Alternatives to circumcision
Chapter 8: Environment and birth weight
Pathways between the built environment and health outcomes
Maternal stress and birth weight
Social capital as a mediating factor of stress
Traditional and proposed measures of neighborhood quality
Chapter 9: Cycle of environmental health disparities
Social determinants of health
Vulnerability of children
Toxic stress for children
Disparities and intellectual disability
Intellectual disability and economic security
Costs of care related to social determinants of health and health disparities
Cycle of environmental health disparities
Section Two: Acknowledgements
Chapter 10: About the editors
Chapter 11: About the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine (WMED), Kalamazoo, Michigan USA
Chapter 12: About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel
Service and academic activities
International collaborations
Chapter 13: About the book series “Pediatrics, child and adolescent health”
Born into this World: Health Issues
( Pediatrics, Child and Adolescent Health (Series Editor: Joav Merrick - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem) )
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