[The role of school admission examination in a preventive health program for children 3-7 years old].

This paper reports on new aspects of the prophylactic care programme, with particular emphasis being laid on prophylactic examination for children of pre-school age. An account is given of the interrelations between the various check ups. Prophylactic examination in the fifth year of age--mass screening No. 10 as the first school entrance examination--is the main priority during this period. The major issues relating to case history, physical, locomotor, and psychosocial development, behaviour, and classical status are described in detail and are offered as a graduated programme.