Contributors -- Health promotion and disease prevention in young families - Avoidable health problems, and expectations of young parents -- Quality of relationship, sensitivity for developmental changes, and transition competence - Three components for establishing good partnership among all family members - -- Frequent Problems in infancy and toddler years: Excessive crying, sleeping and feeding difficulties -- Educating parents in the nutrition of their infants. Objectives and communication -- Vaccinations -- Healthy from the beginning: Promoting the mental and physical development, and preventing injuries of young children. A programme of the AOK Health Insurance Association -- "Growing-Up Safely": a campaign promoting child safety at home -- Prevention of childhood injuries in Germany -- Educating young parents in first aid -- Prevention of allergy -- Caring for the primary dentition - securing parental contributions -- Social backgrounds and communication strategies in family centred health promotion -- Index.