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[Promotion and control of specific child development measures in child day care centers]
1Gesundheitsamt Schöneberg von Berlin, Kinder- und Jugendgesundheitsdienst.
Insights
Children and Youth Health Service (CYHS) partners with kindergartens (KG) to provide essential health promotion and preventive care for 3-year-olds. This collaboration ensures early detection and intervention for developmental and health issues in young children.
Area of Science:
- Socio-pediatrics
- Public Health
- Child Development
Context:
- The Children and Youth Health Service (CYHS) functions as the socio-pediatric partner for Kindergartens (KG) within public services.
- Since 1995, legal provisions guarantee a KG-Place for every 3-year-old child, expanding the reach of CYHS.
- This established partnership allows CYHS to engage with a broader population of young children.
Purpose:
- To outline the primary, secondary, and tertiary preventive tasks undertaken by CYHS within KG settings.
- To detail the systematic health promotion strategies implemented, including health education, motion, and accident prevention.
- To describe the process of screening for developmental issues and ensuring continuous care for children with special needs.
Summary:
- CYHS in KGs focuses on primary prevention through health education, nutrition, physical activity, and addiction prevention.
- Secondary and tertiary prevention involve systematic screenings (motor skills, speech, vision, hearing, behavior) and ongoing support for children with developmental challenges.
- The program utilizes a seven-step approach to implement health promotion actions effectively within the KG environment.
Impact:
- Enhances early detection and management of developmental delays and health concerns in preschool-aged children.
- Improves health outcomes for children by integrating preventive services into the early childhood education system.
- Provides a scalable model for public health initiatives targeting child well-being and development.
Abstract:
The Children and Youth Health Service (CYHS) is the socio-paediatric partner of Kindergartens (KG) in public services. Since 1995 a KG-Place has been assured by law for every 3-year old child. Now the CYHS can reach more children than ever before. Primary preventive tasks of the CYHS in KG are: encouraging and organising standardised and systematic health promotion issues such as health education (including healthy nourishment), motion education, accident prevention, speech promotion and prevention of drug addiction.--Secondary and tertiary preventive tasks: stepwise screening of motoricity, speech, figure perception, auditive function, vision and behaviour appropriate to own resources; safeguarding therapeutic exercises; continuous attendance to those children suffering from handicaps or developmental problems who are not or insufficiently medically cared for.--Seven steps are described for realising health promotion actions in the KG.