Abstract:
The process of growth and development is a remarkable aspect of childhood that should direct the attention of
health professionals. The quality of life of children's health through the development and growth and identify
solutions is expected the guiding principle of professional conduct of this attention. The Program for Integral
Attention to Children's Health - PAISC is inserted into the ESF, and aims to adopt strategies of basic
comprehensive care in the child's health, involving the monitoring of growth and development, family health
team should be the point and strategic gateway to the child's health system and ensure accessibility in the
program of growth and development in the catchment area, and the primary care team and the PSF resolvable
responsible for the health problems of the child. Bibliographical study, exploratory qualitative, where the source
data collection sites were search as: bireme, and scielo diretory of open acces journals and books in the library of
Facimed. The objective of this research was to investigate the literature the authors' opinions regarding the
growth and development of children. Data were collected from January to June 2012. It was used as an inclusion
criterion, references the past 25 years. For data analysis we used descriptive statistics, and used the program
microssoft Word 2007. This study concludes that there are various opinions of the authors regarding the growth
and development of children, where some authors mention that growth and development is directed only to the
calculation of BMI and other authors reported that growth suffers direct influences must be taken into account
other factors, namely genetic, metabolic, lifestyle, housing and care to cognitive and psychological level. But it
is worth noting that the PSF team must see the child as a whole, identifying possible hazards that it may be
affected, thus creating strategies that will prevent or treat diseases that affect the child's development, providing
better quality of life.
