Research Catalog

Title

The ABC's of safe and healthy child care: a handbook for child care providers / [edited by Cynthia M. Hale, Jacquelyn A. Polder].

Publication

[Atlanta, Ga.?] : Dept. of Health and Human Services, U.S. Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; Washington, D.C. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., 1996.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Hale, Cynthia M.
• Polder, Jacquelyn A.
• Hospital Infections Program (U.S.)

Description

139 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

This handbook for child care providers, includes information on how disease is spread and recommends policies and practices that should be instituted in child care settings to prevent disease, injury, and environmental exposures. It also includes fact sheets on many common childhood illnesses and conditions, a first aid chart, and a list of the poison control centers throughout the United States.

Subjects

• Child Care
• Handbooks and manuals
• Safety education > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Day care centers > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Child care services > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Child Day Care Centers > organization & administration
• Communicable Disease Control
• First Aid
• Safety
• United States
• Handbook

Genre/Form

• Handbook
• Handbooks and manuals

Note

• "PB97-104723."
• "This handbook was prepared and produced by the Hospital Infections Program"--T.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 133) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Establishing policies to promote health and safety -- Following protective practices to reduce disease and injury -- Maintaining a safe and healthy facility -- Fact sheets of childhood diseases and conditions -- Appendices:1. Additional resources--Federal agencies, Organizations. 2. Regional poison control centers -- Bibliography -- Index.

OCLC

39091344

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library