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Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents
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Title Details
4th Ed.
2017 © The American Academy of Pediatrics
Judith S. Shaw EdD, MPH, RN, FAAP; Paula M. Duncan MD, FAAP; Joseph F. Hagan Jr MD, FAAP
ISBN-13: 978-1-61002-022-0
eISBN-13: 978-1-61002-023-7
Pediatrics, Nursing
Additional Details
This essential resource provides key background information and recommendations for themes critical to healthy child development along with well-child supervision standards for 31 age-based visits—from Newborn through 21 Years. The result: better health care, more efficient visits, stronger partnerships with children and families, and better ability to keep up with changes in family, communities, and society that affect a child’s health.
What’s in the Bright Futures Guidelines, Fourth Edition?
Twelve health promotion themes:
- Promoting Lifelong Health for Families and Communities - NEW
- Promoting Family Support
- Promoting Health for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs - NEW
- Promoting Healthy Development
- Promoting Mental Health
- Promoting Healthy Weight
- Promoting Healthy Nutrition
- Promoting Physical Activity
- Promoting Oral Health
- Promoting Healthy Sexual Development and Sexuality
- Promoting the Healthy and Safe Use of Social Media - NEW
- Promoting Safety and Injury Prevention
Thirty-one age-based health supervision visits—Newborn to 21 Years
All the information and guidance that’s needed to give children optimal health outcomes:
- Context
- Health Supervision
- History
- Surveillance of Development
- Review of Systems
- Observation of Parent-Child Interaction
- Physical Examination
- Medical Screening
- Immunizations
- Anticipatory Guidance
What’s NEW in the 4th Edition?
- Builds upon previous editions with new and updated content that reflects the latest research
- Presents more recommendations supported by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, CDC Community Guide, Cochrane, and high-quality peer reviewed publications
- Includes three new health promotion themes
- Promoting Lifelong Health for Families and Communities
- Promoting Health for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs
- Promoting the Healthy and Safe Use of Social Media
- New screen time recommendations
- Provides greater focus on lifelong physical and mental health
- Weaves social determinants of health throughout the Visits, allowing health care professionals to consider social factors like food insecurity, violence, and drug use that may affect a child’s and family’s health
- Features updated Milestones of Development and Developmental Surveillance questions
- Provides new clinical content that informs health care professionals about the latest recommendations and provides guidance on how to implement them in practice
- Maternal depression screening, Safe sleep, Iron supplementation in breast fed infants, Fluoride varnish, Dyslipidemia blood screening
- Includes updates to several Adolescent screenings
- Cervical dysplasia, Depression, Dyslipidemia, Hearing, Vision, Tobacco/alcohol/drugs, STIs
- With Bright Futures, health care professionals can accomplish 4 tasks in 18 minutes!
- Disease detection
- Disease prevention
- Health promotion
- Anticipatory guidance
What is Bright Futures?
- A set of theory-based, evidence-driven, and systems-oriented principles, strategies, and tools that health care professionals can use to improve the health and well-being of children through culturally appropriate interventions. Bright Futures addresses the current and emerging health promotion needs of families, clinical practices, communities, health systems, and policymakers.
- The Bright Futures Guidelines is recognized as the blueprint for health supervision visits for all children.
- Bright Futures is the health promotion and disease prevention part of the patient-centered medical home.
Who can use Bright Futures?
- Child health professionals and practice staff who directly provide primary care
- Parents and youth who participate in well-child visits
- Public Health Professionals
- Policymakers
- Pediatric Educators
- MD Residents
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