Major Mental Handicap (eBook)

Katherine Elliott is the editor of Major Mental Handicap: Methods and Costs of Prevention, published by Wiley. Maeve O'Connor is the editor of Major Mental Handicap: Methods and Costs of Prevention, published by Wiley.

Major Mental Handicap: methods and costs of prevention 1
Contents 7
Chairman’s introduction 11
Main causes of major mental handicap: prevalence and epidemiology 13
Discussion 22
Aetiology of severe handicapping conditions in early childhood 27
Discussion 34
Severe mental retardation in Swedish children born 1959-1970: epidemiological panorama and causative factors 39
Discussion 51
ABCs of perinatal medicine 63
Discussion 82
Neonatal intensive care and the prevention of major handicap 87
Discussion 113
A method for neurological evaluation within the first year of life: experience with full-term newborn infants with birth injury 117
Discussion 130
General Discussion 137
Present status of the infant of very low birth weight treated in a referral neonatal intensive care unit in 1974 149
Discussion 154
Outcome for infants at high risk of major handicap 161
Discussion 174
Application of cost-benefit analysis to programmes for the prevention of mental handicap 183
Discussion 195
Perinatality: French cost-benefit studies and decisions on handicap and prevention 203
Discussion 214
Final discussion 217
Priorities for obstetric intervention 217
Group with IQs of 50-70 220
Research priorities 223
UK priorities 224
Ethics 229
Index of contributors 231
Subject index 233