Public Health Aspects of Prenatal Diagnosis

PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS OF CHROMOSOMAL DISORDERS - molecular aspects

It is known that perinatal mortality is caused in 20-25 percent of cases by inhaerited anomalies of fetuses and many of theese might be explained by genetic disorders. In general genetic disorder is a condition caused by abnormalities in genes or chromosomes. Chromosomes are complex bodies in cell nucleus as carriers of genes. While some diseases are due to genetic abnormalities acquired in a f...

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Cultural aspects regarding public health.

Ethical Aspects of Prenatal Diagnosis of Fetal Malformations

Fetal malformations complicate approximately 3% of all pregnancies. Many of these are minor or can be corrected after birth, but there are certain malformations that are lethal and others that are severe and others, that, even if corrected lead to permanent disability. Advances in prenatal diagnosis made possible the diagnosis of many fetal malformations. This led to the concept of the fetus a ...

Prenatal Screening, Reproductive Choice, and Public Health

One widely held view of prenatal screening (PNS) is that its foremost aim is, or should be, to enable reproductive choice; this is the Pure Choice view. The article critiques this position by comparing it with an alternative: Public Health Pluralism. It is argued that there are good reasons to prefer the latter, including the following. (1) Public Health Pluralism does not, as is often supposed...