Maternal protection and infantile

See also: SME

The Maternal protection and infantile , better known under the Initials SME , is a protective system of the mother and the child created in France by a Ordonnance of the November 2nd 1945 wanted by the Minister for Health of the time, François Billoux. This creation was very largely inspired by the " Alsatian and Lorraine association of puériculture" created in 1920 by the Alsatian pediatrist Paul Rohmer (1876 - 1977).

SME played, in particular, a precursory role in the distribution of the contraceptive Pilule.

SME is currently managed by the General advice. Thus, it is often located in the social centres. That allows in particular a work in close cooperation between the male nurses in child welfare, the Médecin S of SME and the assistants of social service.

Its roles

Of the medical, psychological, social preventive measures and of education for health in favor of the future parents and the children;
Of the preventive actions and tracking of the handicaps of the children of less than six years as well as council with the families for the assumption of responsibility of these handicaps;
monitoring and the control of the establishments and services of reception of the children of less than six years as well as maternal assistants.

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