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Clinician's Guide to the First 2000 Days
The first 2000 days, from preconception to when a child starts school presents a critical window to establish healthy behaviours in parents and children.
Health behaviours during the first 2000 days influence the risk of lifelong disease, making prevention vital to ensuring optimum health and wellbeing for both mother and baby.
Integrating prevention into clinical care requires sensitive and nuanced conversations that support parents, children and families to actively engage with their own health, and the healthcare system.
Listen to the Clinicians Guide to the First 2000 Days podcast series, to deepen your clinical knowledge, enhance your care, and better support your patients during this pivotal time.
Clinicians Guide to the First 2000 Days podcast series has been created by Health and Wellbeing Queensland for health professionals.
Clinician's Guide to the First 2000 Days
Toddler and pre-school years: Growing up healthy
Childhood development in the early years is crucial for long-term health and wellbeing. This episode delves into growth milestones and the importance of early intervention. Experts discuss how primary care providers can monitor development, offer preventive care, and address concerns, ensuring timely support to promote healthy growth and development from toddlerhood to preschool.
In this episode, Dr Sam Manger speaks to Dr Nicole White and Dr Jennifer Deacon.
Dr Jennifer Deacon has been a Paediatrician since 2005 and is currently a Senior staff specialist at Gold Coast University Hospital, the Paediatric Lead of Lavender Mother Baby unit, a Statewide maternal mental health unit and
Medical Lead of Children’s Hospital in the home. Jennifer has a special interest in infant and toddlers and loves working with families to improve the long-term health outcomes of the community.
Dr Nicole White is an experienced GP, providing comprehensive care to children and young people. In addition to her clinical role, she sits as a GP representative on a number of paediatric clinical networks and is a GP Liaison officer at Children’s Health Qld. Dr Nicole is passionate about growth and development, health promotion and wellbeing of children and young people in our community.