Child Health Surveillance And Screening Programmes In Detecting Developmental Delay: The Malaysian Model
Faridah M.Said, Jamilah Othman, Maimunah Ismail, Bahaman A.Samah, Khairudin Idris

Abstract
Aims: This article describes the model of health surveillance and screening programmes and its application in the detection of childhood developmental disabilities.

Content: This review utilised data from various articles and websites confined to surveillance screening programmes for infant, toddler and pre-school children (0-6 years). The Wilson and Jungner’s (1968) key concept of surveillance and screening was used as the benchmark.

Conclusions: Results show that the current model is congruent with other industrialised countries in the detection of global developmental disability but not the screening and detection of diseases.

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