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National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health. 1996. Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents Anticipatory Guidance Cards. Arlington, VA: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health.

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In accordance with accepted publishing standards, the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH) requests acknowledgment, in print, of any information reproduced in another publication. The publisher also requests acknowledgment that Bright Futures was supported by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, and Medicaid Bureau, Health Care Financing Administration.

The information contained in the Anticipatory Guidance Cards was excerpted from Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents. Bright Futures provides comprehensive, culturally competent, family-centered, community-based child health supervision guidelines consistent with the needs of families and health professionals today. The Bright Futures guidelines represent the consensus of more than 100 multidisciplinary experts who, under the leadership of Morris Green, M.D., drafted the guidelines based on their review of the science and their expert opinions. The guidelines were then reviewed by over 1,000 professionals nationwide.

This publication has been published by the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health under its cooperative agreement (MCU-119301) with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Adminstration, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The line drawings by Michael David Brown are from Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents.