From birth until the age of 16, a child must pass 20 compulsory medical examinations. These allow monitoring of one’s health until adolescence. As of January 1, 2025, one of the 14 exams scheduled for children’s first 3 years is removed and one is added between their 7th and 16th year.
▶ One exam deleted
Currently, during the first 3 years of their life a child must take 14 of these preventive exams; from January 1, 2025, he will have to take 13. The exam to be taken between his 3rd week and the end of the 1st month will be canceled. From January 1, 2025, the first compulsory examinations of children must take place: within 8 days of their birth; during their 2nd week; during their 2nd month; during their 3rd month; during their 4th month.
▶ In the 7th grade
At the same time, a compulsory exam to be taken during the child’s 7th year will be added. From January 1, 2025, a child will have to undergo 4 medical examinations between the ages of 7 and 16, compared to 3 currently. These medical examinations must take place: during the 7th year; between 8 and 9 years old; between 11 and 13 years old; between 15 and 16 years old.
▶ Curves, psychomotor skills
As the person responsible for a child, you are required to present them for these compulsory medical examinations.
according to health authorities.
What is the content of compulsory medical examinations taken by children? “During the compulsory medical examinations that children must undergo, doctors analyze in particular: their growth curve; their psychomotor skills (assessment of the ability to perform certain gestures such as walking or catching); their psycho-affective development; their vaccinations.”
From January 1, 2025, during these medical visits, health professionals must also: identify psychological disorders (particularly anxiety and depression) that the children they examine may present; administer preventive treatments relating to certain childhood illnesses, when necessary.
▶By a doctor
The examinations are carried out either by the child’s attending physician; either by a doctor that you have chosen as the child’s parent or person having custody of the child. Consultations for these examinations are reimbursed at 100% regardless of the professional who carries them out, without advance payment, except in the event of excess fees (sum greater than the rate set by Health Insurance for a consultation).
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