Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Community Genetics in Latin America: Challenges and Perspectives

Community Genetics in Latin America: Challenges and Perspectives Latin America is a region of medium-to-low income countries with health indicators in transition towards patterns seen in developed countries, with growing importance of birth defects and genetic disorders as causes of morbidity and mortality. Over the past 20 years, tertiary-care-based genetic services have been developing in urban areas, although their population impact is still very low. Cuba is an exception, as genetic services were conceived from the beginning as primary-care-based and with specific community health objectives. Clinical geneticists in the region have recently began a trend towards extending genetic services to the community, with lukewarm support from state public health officials. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Health Genomics Karger

Community Genetics in Latin America: Challenges and Perspectives

Penchaszadeh, Victor B.
Public Health Genomics , Volume 3 (3): 4 – Jan 1, 2001
Download PDF
4 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/karger/community-genetics-in-latin-america-challenges-and-perspectives-k5L7AusNRG

References (20)

Publisher
Karger
Copyright
© 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel
ISSN
1662-4246
eISSN
1662-8063
DOI
10.1159/000051121
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Latin America is a region of medium-to-low income countries with health indicators in transition towards patterns seen in developed countries, with growing importance of birth defects and genetic disorders as causes of morbidity and mortality. Over the past 20 years, tertiary-care-based genetic services have been developing in urban areas, although their population impact is still very low. Cuba is an exception, as genetic services were conceived from the beginning as primary-care-based and with specific community health objectives. Clinical geneticists in the region have recently began a trend towards extending genetic services to the community, with lukewarm support from state public health officials.

Journal

Public Health Genomics – Karger

Published: Jan 1, 2001

Keywords: Latin America; Community genetics; Genetic services; Epidemiology of genetic disorders; Birth defects; Developing countries

There are no references for this article.