Post From Community: This school year, prioritize your child’s physical and mental health | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Rhonda L. Randall, D.O., Chief Medical Officer at UnitedHealthcare
August 9, 2022
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With back-to-school season quickly approaching, it’s important to ensure your child is ready for the school year both physically and emotionally by scheduling a well-child visit.
Well-child visits are annual doctor appointments for preventive health services and are essential for ensuring a child’s growth and tracking developmental milestones. The well-child visit is also the time for routine immunizations to prevent diseases like measles, polio, hepatitis B, chickenpox, whooping cough, and other serious diseases.
Like vaccines, which prevent physical health conditions, speaking with your child’s primary care physician regularly about mental health concerns is also an essential part of overall preventive care and the annual well-child visit is an opportunity to have a conversation with your child’s physician. It’s best to have these conversations when problems or warning signs first appear, so that your physician can take the appropriate steps to best treat them.
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If you’re not sure what questions to ask your child’s primary care physician during an annual well-child visit, consider the following:
If you haven’t already, now is the time to schedule your child’s appointment to give your child a healthy start to the school year. Regular well-child visits are essential in making sure your child is up to date on immunizations and their developmental milestones are on track… including their mental wellbeing.
To learn more about recommended preventive care for your child, visit UHC.com.