[School entrance screening: prospects for health data collection for health promotion in the school and community].

The function of school entrance examinations changes over the period of history. Nowadays the early diagnosis of special disease is done by the medical practitioner outside the public health department, while the school health services are confronted with a new task in the field of local surveillance and health promotion. A doctorate thesis focuses on the question of what data should be obtained by the school entrance examination and what are the results for a data-based health promotion in school and community. The thesis concentrates on North Rhine-Westphalia and is based on an expert interview concerning to the "Jugendärztlichen Definitionen" of the Bielefelder Modell.