The changing profile of consanguinity rates in Bahrain, 1990-2009
| Autor: | Hanan Hamamy, Shaikha Al-Arrayed |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Health Knowledge
Attitudes Practice media_common.quotation_subject Cousin Culture Consanguinity Literacy Neonatal Screening Health care Medicine Humans Genetic Predisposition to Disease Marriage Health Education media_common First Cousin Middle East business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infant Newborn General Social Sciences Community genetics Arabs Bahrain business Consanguineous Marriage Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of biosocial science. 44(3) |
| ISSN: | 1469-7599 |
| Popis: | SummaryConsanguineous marriage is traditional and respected in most communities of North Africa, the Middle East and West Asia, including Bahrain, with intra-familial unions accounting for 20–50+% of all marriages. Significant secular changes in consanguinity rates have been reported in recent decades in different populations. Among parents of 14,237 newborns in Bahrain in 2008–2009, the total consanguinity and first cousin marriage rates over a period of four months in 2008 were 10.9% and 6.9% respectively, while during all of 2009 the rates were 11.4% and 6.8% respectively. The study confirms that over a ten-year period first cousin marriage rates in Bahrain have declined from 24% to nearly 7%. Although advice against cousin marriages was not attempted at any stage in the comprehensive community genetics programmes in Bahrain, increasing the literacy of the public and of the health care providers on prevention strategies for genetic diseases could have contributed to this decline in consanguinity rate in Bahrain. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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