From birth to 14 years it is advisable to routinely get children assessed by the family paediatrician in accordance with the BdS (bilanci di salute) health schedule: a free and well set-out health-check programme.
Simply put, the BdS health schedule allows all children to be screened at set milestones to prevent or assess as soon as possible, any indication of a serious or disabling pathology, for which a diagnosis and early therapy can modify the outcome of the disease or the problem itself.
The BdS is scheduled according to a calendar that is similar across various Italian regions, with a high frequency in the first year (0, 3, 6, 8, 12 months), and progressively reduced in subsequent years (18 months and 3, 6, 10, 14 years).