Child and Youth Health Service
Child and Youth Health Service (KJGD) is a department or subject area of the (municipal) lower health authorities or the health department in the area of public health service . Since health (as well as education) is federally regulated in Germany, the tasks of the KJGD are based on a number of country-specific statutory provisions ( school laws , health service laws , etc.) and result from the operational definition of social pediatrics .
Working method
The KJGD examines and advises subsidiary, (social) compensatory and non-therapeutic, mostly in teams on site e.g. B. in community facilities for children (kindergarten, school). Here he also understands his role as the facility's company doctor. The teams consist ideally of a pediatrician / pediatrician ( school doctor / school doctor) and a / m socio-medical assistant / s or medical staff .
Area of responsibility
The main task is school health care . In times when social classes are increasingly drifting apart, (relative) poverty is no exception and health care or standard medical care is no longer adequately guaranteed or not adequately taken care of for many, it is important to secure essential community-oriented socio-pediatric tasks. These include, for example:
- Occupational medical tasks in community facilities for children and young people
- Epidemiology and Health Reporting
- Expert work on behalf of other agencies, offices and authorities
- Investigations and counseling for children and young people
- School entrance examinations (SEU) or pre-school examinations (VSU)
- Target group and demand-oriented studies
- Developmental examination and counseling for 10 to 14 year old children
- Examinations and advice for disabled people or children and adolescents at risk of disability
- Examinations and advice in preschool age (kindergarten)
- Examinations and advice for 15 to 16 year olds at the end of their school career (e.g. in 9th grade)
- other examinations and consultations in school age (kindergarten, school)