SSL Leung

Abstract

This is an introduction to the Integrated Child Health and Development Programme (ICHDP), which is a population-based, health promotion and disease prevention programme for children 0 to 5 and their families, delivered through a network of 31 Maternal and Child Health Centres in Hong Kong. It comprises the three components of parenting, immunisation and health and developmental surveillance. The Comprehensive Child Development Service, a 2005 government policy initiative, augments the ICHDP with service components that address the special needs of at risk pregnant mothers, families with psychosocial needs, mothers with postnatal depression and preschool children with developmental problems. The current programme covers about 90% of infants born to local parents.

這是一個兒童健康和發展綜合計劃（ICHDP）的簡介，主要是一個以人口為基礎，促進健康和預防疾病的計劃，透過全香港31間母嬰健康院網絡，為初生至5歲兒童和他們的家人提供服務。它包括親子教育，免疫接種和健康及發展監察三個組成部分。而兒童綜合發展服務機構CCDS（為政府於2005年推行的政府政策），增加了ICHDP 的服務內容，滿足高危妊娠母親，心理及社會需要的家庭，患有產後抑鬱症母親和有發展障礙的學齡前兒童等特殊需要。目前該計劃能覆蓋約90％本地父母所生的嬰兒。