Sustav zdravlja u području rane intervencije u djetinjstvu.

Inspired by the current state of Early Childhood Intervention in the Republic of Croatia and the needs of families, the Croatian Association for Early Childhood Intervention has initiated development of a unique database of the Early Childhood Intervention services at the national level. Creating a database aims to provide easy access to comprehensive and reliable information about services in the field of Early Childhood Intervention provided in the Republic of Croatia in the preschool education, health care and social welfare systems. This paper presents data obtained in the public and private health care institutions in order to get an insight into the current state of service delivery in the field of Early Childhood Intervention all over Croatia. Data were collected through questionnaire in the form of Internet application. The sample consisted of 41 public health care institutions and 32 private institutions registered in the health care system. Results indicated abidance of centralization of institutions that provide services in the field of Early Childhood Intervention within the health care system in the City of Zagreb. At the same time, no statistically significant differences were found among counties and different kinds of disabilities, professionals and services provided. Comparison between public and private health care institutions showed the structure of the employees as well as the type of services at private institutions to be closer to the contemporary concept of early intervention. Namely, their focus is on the child and their parents rather than on the motor aspect of the child's development. Private sector brings what public sector does not offer, but parents have to pay for services in the former. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]