Major mental handicap : methods and costs of prevention

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland, 1978
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.9/28/58805
• Soggetto topico: Intellectual disability - Prevention; Intellectual disability - Prevention - Costs; Neonatal intensive care; Prenatal care; Intellectual disability - Etiology
• 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
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• Titolo autorizzato: Major mental handicap
• ISBN: 9786613694164; 9781280783777; 128078377X; 9780470718094; 0470718099; 9780470720417; 0470720417
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818861903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; new ser. 59.