Review of policy, law and ethics
Authors: Petrogiannis, Konstantinos 
Jallinoja, Piia 
Tymstra, Tjeerd 
Ettorre, Elizabeth 
Publisher: Routledge
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2001
Book: Before Birth: Understanding Prenatal Screening 
Keywords: Health and Social Care, Social Sciences
Abstract: 
This chapter describes and compares policies, laws and public debates related to prenatal screening in Finland, England, Greece and The Netherlands. It outlines the regulatory framework, the debates, the actors and events that are involved in the shaping of prenatal screening technologies. The health care system in Greece is delivered both in the public and private sector. The roles of both sectors are parallel and complimentary. Public discussion and interest in genetic diseases started in the early 1960s with regard to thalassemia, a genetically transmitted anemia that has a prevalence of the affected gene of 8%. The population initially avoided screening. The implementation of prenatal tests and screening in Greece is based on the successful thalassemia program. In Finland, the technology of prenatal screening has proliferated through municipal maternity care centres that are attended by 99% of pregnant women. The use of gene tests for prenatal diagnosis has brought up many new ethical, social and political issues around prenatal screening.
ISBN: 9781315191492
DOI: 10.4324/9781315191492
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/999
Type: Book Chapter
Department: Department of Early Childhood Education and Care 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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