Special Event

Program Abstracts

Plenary Session 1

• Plenary 1 Abstracts
• Changing the Prevention Paradigm: The Role of Preconception Health and Health Care int the Prevention of Birth Defects
• Birth Defects in the Central and Eastern European Region: Morbidity, Epidemiology, Current Activities
• Safer Healthier People

Plenary Session 2

• Plenary 2a Abstracts
• Plenary 2b Abstracts
• Preconception Care Promotion: Analysis of Means and Constraints
• Key Issues to Have a Good Birth Defects Surveillance and Research Program in the Early 2000s
• Preconceptional Health: What are the Challenges and Knowledge Gaps for Implementation?
• A Population Health Perspective on Birth Defects Research and Prevention (Cited References)
• Public Health Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe

Plenary Session 3

• Plenary 3 Abstracts
• Lessions Learned from Folic Acid Campaign on how Socail Marketing can Help Promote Preconception Health
• Prenatal Counselling
• Family Planning Service in Hungary - Special Attention for Women Affected by Psychiatric Disorders

Plenary Session 4

• Plenary 4 Abstracts
• Impact of Folic Acid Food Fortification in South America
• Folid Acid and Prevention of Preterm Birth - A Population-Based Study
• International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
• Prevention of Spina Bifida & Anencephaly: Importance of Folic Acid Fortification of Flour Assesing Effects Worldwide

Plenary Session 5

• Plenary 5a Abstracts
• Plenary 5b Abstracts
• Infections in Pregnancy - Clinical Aspects
• Early Identification and Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: the NIAA Collaborativ Initiative in Eastern Europe
• Progress in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Ukraine: Situation in Lviv Region
• Immunisations within the Family Planning Program in Hungary
• Rubella Vaccination Campaigns in Brazil, Impact on Induced Abortions
• Changing Physicians' Knowledge and Attitudes
• Preventing FAS/FASD in Russian Children

Breakout Session 1

• Breakout 1a Abstracts
• Breakout 1b Abstracts
• Neural Tube Defects and MTHFR Gene Polymorphisms - The Incidence in the Slovak Population
• Folic Acid Promotion Strategies in the Netherlands. A Challenging Model for the Promotion of Preconception Care?
• Evaluation of Long Term Vitamin Usage Among Participants in a Western North Carolina Multivitamin Distribution Program
• Socio-demografic Determinants of Folic Acid Supplementation in Preconceptional Period
• Folate and Clefts of the Lip and Palate - A UK Based Case-Control Study: Biochemical and Genetic Analysis
• ASBAH's Campaign for Compulsory Flour Fortification with Folic Acid in the UK
• Population Based Folate Status Monitoring to Explore the Causes of Insufficient Folate Intake aomng Pregnant Women
• Bastophaties - Conjoined Twins - NTD Complex: Rivne - Polissia Region

Breakout Session 2

• Breakout 2 Abstracts
• Health Promotion in Hungary
• Key to Success: Integration of Preconception Care through Policy, Service Delivery and Community-Level Interventions in Armenia
• Promoting Folic Acid: A Successful Outreach Model
• Towards a Preconception Care Programme in the Netherlands
• Success of an Electronic Preconception Checklist on Internet

Breakout Session 3

• Breakout 3 Abstracts
• Working Conditions and Preconception Care
• Telephone-Based Teratogen Counseling too Improve Pregnancy Outcome - The OTIS Model
• Postmarketing Teratology Surveillance in Hungary: A Successful Model
• Preconceptional Care: Five Years Experience of a Teratology Information Service
• Health and Environmental Consequences of the Chernobyl Disaster
• Pregnancy Outcome after Preconception Progesterone in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

Breakout Session 4

• Breakout 4 Abstracts
• Congenital Malformations in Children Live Born During 1998-2002 in Poland - Data from the Polish Registry of Congenital Malformations (PRCM)
• Role of the Hungarian Congenital Abnormality Registry in Prevention of Birth Defects
• Infant Mortality due to Birth Defects in the Czech Republic in 1994 - 2006
• The Polish Registry of Congenital Malformations (PRCM) - Benefit for Medical Genetics
  
• OMNI-Net Birth Defects Ukrainian Consortium Impact and Lessons Learned from "De-centralized" Strategies

Breakout Session 5

• Breakout 5 Abstracts
• Capacity Building for the Transfer of Genetic Knowledge into Practice and Prevention: The CAPABILITY Project
  
• Preconception Health Care Delivery in Middle-Income Countries: Strategies to Integrate Along the Continuum of Care
  
• Contribution of the Bulgarian Information Centre for Rare Diseases Towards Prevention and Treatment
  
• The Contribution of the Central & Eastern European Genetic Network (CEEGN) Towards Prevention and Treatment of Genetic Diseases
  
• The Role of Patient Organisations Regarding National Preconception Policy: 'The Dutch Example'

Breakout Session 6

• Breakout 6 Abstracts
• Maternal and Paternal Life-Style Factors and Time to Pregnancy
  
• Diabetes and Birth Defects
  
• Hypertension and Pregnancy Outcomes
  
• The PRegnancy and Infant DEvelopment (PRIDE) Study: Intended Study Design

Breakout Session 7

• Breakout 7 Abstracts
• Genetic Counseling as a Key for Birth Defects & Genetic Disorders Prevention
  
• Polish Collection of Chromosomal Translopcations
  
• Is it time to change from classical karyotyping to rapid testing in prenatal diagnosis?
  
• Practical Aspects of Down's Syndrome Screening - General Introduction of Combined Test
  
• Antenatal Screening for Fetal Abnormalities in Hungary

Breakout Session 8

• Breakout 8 Abstracts
• Linking Birth Defects Surveillance with Early Intervention (EI) Services in Rivne
  
• Infant Mortality - Ukraine vs. Alabama
  
• Pregnancy Registry in Rivne: An Expansion of a Birth Defects Registry
  
• Cyberspace and Birth Defects (BD) Programs in Ukraine

Posters

• Poster 1
• Poster 2
• Poster 3
• Poster 4

Poster Sessions

• Poster Session 1
• Poster Session 2

Last Updated: 2008/10/15

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