...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Birth defects Community genetics Health policies Medical services Public health Medical genetic services...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Birth defects Brazil Clinical genetics Community genetics Developing countries Genetic diseases Genetic services There is a lack of precise data about the specific contributions...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Community genetics India Thalassaemia Sickle cell disease Haemophilia With increasing control of infant mortality and infectious disease, genetic disorders are assuming greater importance in India. Haemoglobinopathies...

... of termination to avoid recurrence of a genetic disorder. A strategy for integrating genetic services into the existing health structure of the country was originally proposed during the 1980s [ 19 ]. Currently, it would seem that a community genetics service could only be provided through linkage with other...

...L. Henneman; M.W. Langendam; L.P. ten Kate Community Genetics is an emerging field of activities at the interface of medical genetics and community medicine, involving both research and application. The main goal of research in this field is to investigate how medical genetics can best...

...Ghislaine Cleret de Langavant This article describes the need to develop a new methodology in bioethics that can consider multiple interactions, creativity and the organisation specific to complex systems. Community genetics is taken as an example of complexity in bioethics. Community genetics...

... specialists [ 3, 13 ]. Community genetics in Latin America is developing in a complex historical, cultural and socioeconomic context. Latin America comprises Mexico, Central and South America and the Latin Caribbean, with a total of 22 countries and a population of 500 million [ 1 ]. Latin...

... there is evidence for the practicability and usefulness of periconceptional care. It may become an important field of community genetics, and a starting program for general as well as specific health promotion. The Hungarian experiences support the concept that appropriate preparation for conception is the earliest...

... molecular biology can be disseminated in the social imagery as well as in practice. Based on Saguenay-Lac-St. Jean’s experience and the public interventions of the Corporation for Research and Action on Hereditary Diseases, we propose viewing community genetics as a ‘frontier discipline’, a complex network...

..., such as ECOGENE-21, that aim to develop exportable infrastructures in preventive and community genetics and vanguard scientific, medical, ethical and social approaches capable of improving the population’s quality of life. CORAMH offers an intervention model that can be applied to specific hereditary disorders...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Community genetics The Netherlands Initiative Group Genetic screening Population...

... combines Quebec’s expertise in population and community genetics. The present article briefly describes two projects developed with a view to foster such strategy. The ECOGENE-21 project is designed to develop and evaluate resources and strategies for integrating and transferring new knowledge of the human...

... are given regarding genetic counselling in general and regarding free informed decision making. 7 5 1998 Cystic fibrosis Carrier testing Screening Psychological and social impact Psychological models Genetic counselling Community genetics 1998 Copyright / Drug Dosage...