The Child Health function provides leadership and support to the National Healthy Childhood Programme, the HSE’s universal health programme for all children to support them and their parents from birth.
This support, particularly in the crucial first few years of life, helps to create the best outcomes for children, building the foundations for health over their lifetime.
This includes newborn screening, health and development checks, vaccination and providing key health, wellbeing and safety information for parents through resources such as mychild.ie.