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Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
ISBN: 3527329978
EAN: 97835273299779783527329977
Release Date: 06 April 2011
Age Range: 15+ years
Number of Page: Undefined number of pages
Language: English
Quality: Scanned pages
Size File: Not defined
Description: The perfect complementation to "Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder" this title for the first time gives a complete overview of prevention strategies of FADS and their effectiveness on a global scale. A real Must-Have for everyone involved in decisions about FADS prevention measures.

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

About 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".