[Social responsibilities in pediatrics and their realization in Czechoslovakia. 1. Social pediatric responsibilities of an ambulatory care pediatrician in general practice].

A survey is given on social-paediatric tasks of ambulantly practising children's specialists--who are acting as family doctors--in Czecho-Slovakia. Among other things they are obliged to inform and to advise the parents in respect to their healthy and to their ill children, to observe and to secure a healthy development of all children within the reach of their responsibility as well as to cooperate with all the sociable institutions in case of special problems concerning children. A special centre of gravity for those tasks means to be the care for chronically ill and handicapped children as well as to act as experts in all problems and legal proceedings.