[Detection and monitoring of high-risk children].

The authors first describe problems related to the lowering of infant mortality and deal with the terms "high-risk factor" and "high-risk baby". As a result of the dangers presented by prenatal and perinatal noxae the need arises for low-risk births and optimal care of new-born babies. The public health system must be suitably organized so that babies with case history details can be supervised and others with cerebral motor disturbances without pathological data can be registered in the case history.