Community genetics. Its definition 2010

Community genetics: a new discipline and its application in Brazil.

Community genetics is a new discipline which aims to provide genetic services to the community as a whole. As a science, community genetics encompasses all research needed to develop and evaluate its application. There is no question that the development of community genetics is necessary in Brazil. The implementation of such programs in our country, especially for hemoglobinopathies, has been ...

Community genetics and community medicine.

In the decades to come, molecular genetic insights and techniques will have great influence on prevention and health care. Health care providers should anticipate important new developments rather than just wait and see. For community doctors, who can impossibly oversee all relevant developments in sufficient detail, close communication with the community and clinical genetic specialists is nec...

[Deprescribing: guiding its definition].

Genetics services in the community.

The FOSS 2010 Community Report

This is a proposal for a panel presentation to be held during the OSS2010 conference in South Bend, IN. The purpose of this panel will be to disseminate the findings from the related FOSS2010 workshop, a CCCsponsored exploratory workshop held in Irvine, California in February. At the OSS conference we wish to give first a report of what was learned at the FOSS workshop, and then to glean import...