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St. Louis Children's Hospital provides a full range of pediatric services to the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area and a primary service region covering six states.

As the pediatric teaching hospital for Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Children's Hospital offers nationally recognized programs for physician training and research.

The hospital has 258 licensed beds, 3,000 employees, 700 medical staff members and 1,300 auxiliary members and volunteers.

Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents, and the age limit usually ranges from birth up to 18-21 years of age (in some places until completion of secondary education).

A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician, or paediatrician.

The word pediatrics and its cognates mean "healer of children"; they derive from two Greek words: (pais "child") and (iatros "doctor, healer").

Pediatricians work both in hospitals, particularly those working in its specialized subfields such as neonatology, and as primary care physicians.

Missouri (see ) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, achieving statehood in 1821.

With over six million residents, it is the eighteenth most populous state and host to the mean center of United States population.

The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia.

The capitol is in Jefferson City on the Missouri River.

The state is the twenty-first most extensive by area and is geographically diverse.

The Northern Plains were once covered by glaciers, then tallgrass prairie, and now the deep soils yield great agricultural productivity.

In the South are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation.

The Mississippi River forms the eastern border of the state, eventually flowing into the swampy Missouri Bootheel.

Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.

Healthcare is delivered by health professionals (providers or practitioners) in allied health professions, chiropractic, physicians, physician associates, dentistry, midwifery, nursing, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, psychology, and other health professions.

It includes the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.

Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence.

According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, childhood consists of two stages: preoperational stage and concrete operational stage.

In developmental psychology, childhood is divided up into the developmental stages of toddlerhood (learning to walk), early childhood (play age), middle childhood (school age), and adolescence (puberty through post-puberty).

Various childhood factors could affect a person's attitude formation.'.