World Health Organization : Year 1998 ; World Health Organization, Human Genetics Programme Cons Mgs, No. 98.4: Medical Genetic Services in Latin America

By Victor B. Penchaszadeh

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1998 ; World Health Organization, Human Genetics Programme Cons Mgs, No. 98.4: Medical Genetic Services in Latin America
Author:	Victor B. Penchaszadeh
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


Citation APA MLA Chicago Penchaszadeh, V. B. (n.d.). World Health Organization : Year 1998 ; World Health Organization, Human Genetics Programme Cons Mgs, No. 98.4. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Medical Reference Publication

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INTRODUCTION In the framework of the 9th International Congress of Human Genetics, August 1996, a group of experts in medical genetics from Latin America met in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the situation of medical genetics in the Region and to set forth a series of recommendations for the continuing development of the field in the areas of services, training and research. This meeting was a follow-up of two previous meetings of Latin American experts in medical genetics convened by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The fist such meeting was of an Advisory Group that met in Washington, D.C., in 1982, and whose recommendations where published by PABO in 1984 (Prevention of Genetic Diseases and Congenital Defects, Scientific Publication #460, 1984). The second meeting was held in Havana, Cuba in 1987 and it's recommendations where published as an internal PAHO document in Spanish (Acciones de Salud de Genetica en America Latina y el Caribe, 1988).

Table of Contents
Contents INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 PART 1 MU)ICAL GENETIC SERVICES IN SELECTED COUNTRIES . . . . . . . . . 3 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Mexiw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Pmguay . . . . . * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 PuertoRiw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 2 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 PART I1 GENERAL ISSUES IN THE REGION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 1 . The importance of a basic research laboratory for development. and human resource training in cytogenetics in Uruguay: 36 years of research activity (1960-1996) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 2 . Postgraduate education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3 . Birth defects registries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ; . . . . . . . . . 31 4 . Diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 5 . Bioethics and medical genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 PART I11 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 1 . Clinical genetic services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 2 . Genetic diagnosis laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3 . Training human and medical geneticists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 4 . Research in human and medical genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 ! LIST OF PARTICIPANTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 TABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45