Book I: Protection and promotion of maternal and child health

When a birth is registered, a health record is issued free of charge for each child. This booklet is issued by the civil registrar; failing this, it can be requested from the departmental maternal and child protection service. A ministerial order shall determine the model and method of use of this booklet, which must include the results of the medical examinations provided for in articles L. 2132-2 and L. 2132-2-1…

All children under the age of eighteen benefit from preventive health and social measures, including compulsory examinations. The number and content of these examinations, the age at which they must be carried out and the determination of those which give rise to a health certificate are laid down by regulation. The content of health certificates, and in particular the list of illnesses or deficiencies that must be mentioned in them,…

In the year following their third, sixth, ninth, twelfth and fifteenth birthdays, children must undergo a preventive oral health check-up by a dental surgeon or a doctor qualified in stomatology. This obligation is deemed to have been fulfilled when the dental surgeon or a doctor qualified in stomatology certifies on the health record mentioned in article L. 2132-1 that the examinations have been carried out. In the year following their…

Within eight days, the doctor who has carried out an examination leading to the issue of a health certificate shall send this certificate to the doctor in charge of the departmental maternal and child protection service. This information is transmitted in compliance with professional confidentiality. For the purposes of statistical and epidemiological monitoring of children’s health, each departmental public maternal and child protection service transmits to the Minister for Health…

The persons exercising parental authority or those to whom a child has been entrusted shall be informed, in compliance with ethical rules, when a disability has been suspected, detected or reported in the child, in particular during the medical examinations provided for in article L. 2132-2, of the nature of the disability and of the possibility for the child to be admitted to specialised centres, in particular early medical-social action…

Unless otherwise provided, the conditions of application of this chapter shall be determined by decree of the Conseil d’Etat.