Educating Health Professionals about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
| Autor: | Michael Brimacombe, Rosalyn Pitt, Mary Kate Weber, Robert Levine, Elizabeth P. Dang, Stephen R. Braddock, Mark B. Mengel, Barbie Zimmerman-Bier, Tara Rupp, Martha Alexander, Carolyn Szetela, Gretchen Guiton, Roger Zoorob, Kathleen Tavenner Mitchell, Mary J. O'Connor, Margaret L. Stuber, Blair Paley, Susan Baillie, Louise R. Floyd, Melinda Ohlemiller, Kevin Rudeen, Susan Adubato, Keely Cook, Danny Wedding, Yvonne Fry-Johnson, Suzanne Powell, Tanya Telfair Sharpe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pregnancy Health (social science) Health professionals business.industry education Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Fetal alcohol syndrome medicine.disease Fetal alcohol Prenatal alcohol exposure Learning disability Health care medicine medicine.symptom Psychiatry business Curriculum |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 2168-3751 1932-5037 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19325037.2007.10598996 |
| Popis: | Prenatal exposure to alcohol is a leading preventable cause of birth defects and developmental disabilities. Individuals exposed to alcohol during fetal development can have physical, mental, behavioral, and learning disabilities, with lifelong implications. These conditions are known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Health care professionals play a crucial role in identifying women at risk for an alcohol-exposed pregnancy and in identifying the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure among individuals. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities has funded four universities as FASD Regional Training Centers (RTCs). The RTCs, in collaboration with the CDC and the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, are developing, implementing, and evaluating educational curricula for medical and allied health students and practitioners and seeking to have the curricula incorporated into training programs at each grantee's ... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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