Major mental handicap : methods and costs of prevention.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Symposium on the Cost of Preventing Major Mental Handicap, Corporate Author.

Conference Name:

Symposium on the Cost of Preventing Major Mental Handicap (1977 : London, England)

Symposium on the Cost of Preventing Major Mental Handicap

Series:

Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 59.

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 59 (new ser.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual disability--Prevention--Congresses.

Intellectual disability.

Intellectual disability--Prevention--Costs--Congresses.

Neonatal intensive care--Congresses.

Neonatal intensive care.

Prenatal care--Congresses.

Prenatal care.

Intellectual disability--Etiology--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland, 1978.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Contents:

Major Mental Handicap: methods and costs of prevention; Contents; Chairman's introduction; Main causes of major mental handicap: prevalence and epidemiology; Discussion; Aetiology of severe handicapping conditions in early childhood; Discussion; Severe mental retardation in Swedish children born 1959-1970: epidemiological panorama and causative factors; Discussion; ABCs of perinatal medicine; Discussion; Neonatal intensive care and the prevention of major handicap; Discussion

A method for neurological evaluation within the first year of life: experience with full-term newborn infants with birth injuryDiscussion; General Discussion; Present status of the infant of very low birth weight treated in a referral neonatal intensive care unit in 1974; Discussion; Outcome for infants at high risk of major handicap; Discussion; Application of cost-benefit analysis to programmes for the prevention of mental handicap; Discussion; Perinatality: French cost-benefit studies and decisions on handicap and prevention; Discussion; Final discussion

Priorities for obstetric interventionGroup with IQs of 50-70; Research priorities; UK priorities; Ethics; Index of contributors; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613694164

9781280783777

128078377X

9780470718094

0470718099

9780470720417

0470720417

OCLC:

797918417