title: [Longitudinal recording and follow-up of newborns in the prevention of disease in childhood].
abstract: For any society a timely follow-up of the child's psychosomatic development is of utmost importance. Such a follow-up requires that at the very birth of the child there are adequate records on all phases of pregnancy, on risk factors potentially affecting the child's development, and data on labour and the newborn's functions. All this information should be provided by gynecologists in consultation units for women and in maternity wards, as well as by pediatricians in maternity wards and child dispensaries. In view of this, systematic examinations and the follow-up of children in their first days and years of life are imperative for an early detection of possible health impairments. For the implementation of such a programme a close collaboration of hospital and non-hospital services and the standardization of medical records are essential. At present some recording in this respect exists but its scope is very modest. The setting up of a respective registry is what is actually needed.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002662:Child Health Services; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008499:Medical Records; D011247:Pregnancy; D011322:Primary Prevention; D015022:Yugoslavia
vernacular_title: Longitudinalno praćenje i evidencija novorodencadi u prevenciji invalidnoti djece.