→ → → Védőnő (health-service visitor)
In Hungary, child and family protection belongs to the scope of health-visitor service. It includes preserving good health conditions, disease prevention and health promotion and development. Health-visitors perform their tasks on a specific frontier of healthcare, collaborating with other healthcare workers.
they keep close contact with the people they care for, and provide them advice regarding healthcare, social-, and mental hygiene related topics;
they organize screening programs;
they organize vaccination programs;
they organize health promotion campaigns and other social programs for the people they care for
family and women-protection, including counseling and family care;
organizing screening programs for women aged 25 to 65 years (e.g., for cervical cancer screening);
providing care for women during pregnancy, for puerperal and breastfeeding mothers;
providing child care for children from infancy until the establishment of their student status;
performing health-visitor tasks in kindergardens and primary schools;
providing child care for children in school-age who require nursing care at their home;
collaboration with social-, public school-, family-, youth-, civil-, religious-, cultural networks and other organizations;
participating in child protective services
