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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144658903321

Titolo

Major mental handicap [[electronic resource] ] : methods and costs of prevention

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-280-78377-X

9786613694164

0-470-71809-9

0-470-72041-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 59 (new ser.)

Disciplina

618.9/28/58805

Soggetti

Intellectual disability - Prevention

Intellectual disability - Prevention - Costs

Neonatal intensive care

Prenatal care

Intellectual disability - Etiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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