Major Mental Handicap: methods and costs of prevention; Contents; Chairman's introduction; Main causes of major mental handicap: prevalence and epidemiology; Discussion; Aetiology of severe handicapping conditions in early childhood; Discussion; Severe mental retardation in Swedish children born 1959-1970: epidemiological panorama and causative factors; Discussion; ABCs of perinatal medicine; Discussion; Neonatal intensive care and the prevention of major handicap; Discussion
A method for neurological evaluation within the first year of life: experience with full-term newborn infants with birth injury; Discussion; General Discussion; Present status of the infant of very low birth weight treated in a referral neonatal intensive care unit in 1974; Discussion; Outcome for infants at high risk of major handicap; Discussion; Application of cost-benefit analysis to programmes for the prevention of mental handicap; Discussion; Perinatality: French cost-benefit studies and decisions on handicap and prevention; Discussion; Final discussion
Priorities for obstetric intervention; Group with IQs of 50-70; Research priorities; UK priorities; Ethics; Index of contributors; Subject index
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Proceedings of the Symposium on the Cost of Preventing Major Mental Handicap, held at Ciba Foundation, London, 7-8 Nov. 1977
