Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder FASD: Who is responsible [NOOK Book]

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Exposing a developing embryo or fetus to alcohol can produce life long brain damage with neurological, cognitive and behavioural consequences. The implications of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder for the affected individual and the family are devastating. The social and economic burden to society is enormous with formidable expenditures in health care, mental health care, education, social services and possibly correctional services. Prevention has been a goal since the condition was medically described and ...
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Overview

Exposing a developing embryo or fetus to alcohol can produce life long brain damage with neurological, cognitive and behavioural consequences. The implications of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder for the affected individual and the family are devastating. The social and economic burden to society is enormous with formidable expenditures in health care, mental health care, education, social services and possibly correctional services. Prevention has been a goal since the condition was medically described and defined forty years ago, but has remained elusive but feasible. This book reviews the evidence for effective strategies. It lays out what needs to be done. The book should be of great value to policy makers, clinicians, researchers and others advocating for action against this condition that is reducing the potential of our society and sapping its resources.

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Reviewer: Jay P. Goldsmith, MD(Tulane University School of Medicine)
Description: A companion to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Management and Policy Perspectives of FASD, Riley et al. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), this book reviews a wide range of epidemiologic studies that examine the effectiveness of strategies to reduce fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). It is aimed at healthcare policy makers, preventive health professionals, and epidemiologists more than clinicians.
Purpose: The purpose is to explore potential strategies for the prevention of FASD. The burden to society of this disorder is reviewed to emphasize the cost-benefit ratio of prevention versus treatment of this problem.
Audience: The main audience includes healthcare policy makers, preventive health professionals, and healthcare researchers. The editors and authors are well-known experts in the field. Dr. Clarren authored the first major summary article on this disorder over 30 years ago, and he and Dr. Jonsson are among the editors of the previous work as well.
Features: After a brief description of FASD, its prevalence, and the social and economic burdens to society, the book reviews research on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of people with this disorder. It carefully analyzes the effectiveness of various strategies of prevention in a number of reviewed studies and it includes search strategies and evaluations of data analysis.
Assessment: This is probably the most comprehensive review of the literature on this subject available, but physicians wanting guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with various forms of this disease spectrum would be better served with a more clinical text.
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"This is probably the most comprehensive review of the literature on this subject available, but physicians wanting guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with various forms of this disease spectrum would be better served with a more clinical text." (Doody's, 20 January 2012)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9783527635498
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/9/2011
  • Series: Health Care and Disease Management , #18
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 392
  • File size: 11 MB
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Meet the Author

Sterling Clarren is CEO and Scientific Director of the Canada Northwest FASD Research Network and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics.

Amy Salmon, PhD is the Managing Director of the Canada Northwest FASD Research Network. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, and holds research appointments with the Women's Health Research Institute, the Centre for Addictions Research of BC, and the University of Victoria.

Egon Jonsson is director and CEO of the Institute of Health Economics, and professor at the University of Alberta, public health sciences. For 20 years he was a professor of health economics at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. He was also director of the Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment (SBU), worked for WHO Euro, and was a health policy advisor at the ministry of health in Hanoi, Vietnam. He has co-edited two successful Wiley-VCH titles during his time at SBU: "Treating and Preventing Obesity" and "Treating Alcohol and Drug Abuse".

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Table of Contents

PREVENTION OF FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER FASD: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
Sterling Clarren, Amy Salmon and Egon Jonsson AN OVERVIEW OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS ON PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER Maria Ospina, Carmen Moga, Liz Dennett and Christa Harstall AN OVERVIEW OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS ON PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER Maria Ospina, Carmen Moga, Liz Dennett and Christa Harstall FIVE PERSPECTIVES ON PREVENTION OF FASD Lola Baydala, Robin Thurmeier, June Bergman, Nancy Whitney and Amy Salmon

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