[Effectiveness of health services for young children in an outpatient department].

The main indices are provided of the effectiveness of a new organisational form of health care delivery for children of the first three years of life--the department for young children. As a result of restructuring the services of the base polyclinics and establishing additional services, the volume and quality of followup care for young children have increased, the activities carried out within a family and populations at risk have improved. Morbidity according to the number of visits by children to the polyclinics was reduced by 17.3%.