Physical Development and the Healthy Child

Physical Development and the Healthy Child

Introduction

Physical development is a complex of morphological and functional indicators, which are closely related to physical performance and the level of the biological condition of the individual at this particular point in time. Physical development reflects the processes of growth and development at different stages of postnatal ontogeny (individual development), when the conversion occurs most clearly in the genotypic potential phenotype. Physical development, along with fertility, morbidity and mortality, is one of the indicators of the health of the population.

Poverty

Poverty became a clearly recognized problem during the twentieth century. The issue of women's poverty has emerged under the concept of "feminization of poverty. Focusing on the gender dimension of poverty is indeed far more than simply counting the number of poor women (Hall & Elliman, 2006, pp 299-303).

Poverty is deprivation of material essentials such as food, shelter, drinking water, and clothing. It associates with the lack of education, freedom, and dignity. The uneven distribution of poverty at various scales, from the global to the household, via the national, regional, and local, suggests the importance of geographic factors in explaining its prevalence and understanding its nature (Sigelman & Rider, 2011, pp 23-27). Main objective is to explore the fundamental concepts related to poverty and how does external environment influences the life of a person living on the poverty line. This paper highlights the fundamentals of micro, mezzo, and macro-environment perspectives on the life of a person categorized under the poverty threshold (Hall & Elliman, 2006, pp 299-303). Poverty is the leading cause of illness in children. The four main areas that affect poverty are as follows:

Nutrition

Health-care are not vaccinated, do not receive medical care, suffer more infections, live in overcrowded and without adequate sanitary measures.

Physical work required of children.

Poor stimulation at home and in school (Sigelman & Rider, 2011, pp 23-27).

The problems start before birth and continue to have the child diseases that can lead to vision loss, infections, behavioural problems and disorders caused by stress. Environmental stimulation is needed to develop the actual capacities of the child (Warner, 2002: 54-89).

Nutrition

Nutrition is a complex process that includes knowledge of the mechanisms by which living things use and incorporate nutrients to develop and maintain your tissues and get the energy needed to perform their functions. Nutrition is a complex process that includes Knowledge of the Mechanisms by Which ...