While the postpartum screening tool is an effective way to identify newborns at risk, it does not identify children at risk prenatally or as they become toddlers and preschoolers.
The results of the postpartum screen are forwarded to the Public Health Unit for follow-up with the family, including, when indicated, the introduction of early and appropriate interventions and other services to reduce risk. To reach every child to identify risk of poor development, Healthy Babies Healthy Children introduced a postpartum screening tool (Parkyn), a universal tool that successfully screens (with family consent) all newborns for risk, and which is administered in hospitals and by midwives. The Government introduced Healthy Babies Healthy Children on January 1, 1998, as a way to ensure that every child in Ontario has the opportunity to achieve his/her potential through healthy development in childhood.
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