[Promotion and control of specific child development measures in child day care centers].

The Children and Youth Health Service (CYHS) is the socio-paediatric partner of Kindergartens (KG) in public services. Since 1995 a KG-Place has been assured by law for every 3-year old child. Now the CYHS can reach more children than ever before. Primary preventive tasks of the CYHS in KG are: encouraging and organising standardised and systematic health promotion issues such as health education (including healthy nourishment), motion education, accident prevention, speech promotion and prevention of drug addiction.--Secondary and tertiary preventive tasks: stepwise screening of motoricity, speech, figure perception, auditive function, vision and behaviour appropriate to own resources; safeguarding therapeutic exercises; continuous attendance to those children suffering from handicaps or developmental problems who are not or insufficiently medically cared for.--Seven steps are described for realising health promotion actions in the KG.