Primary care Iranian national thalassaemia screening programme
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Progress in controlling communicable diseases increases the relative importance of noncommunicable diseases, including genetic disorders. In Iran, the development of primary health care over the past 20 years has greatly reduced infant mortality and crude birth rate. Accordingly, in 1991 prevention of non-communicable diseases was added to the primary healthcare programme, and a department for the control of non-communicable disease, including a genetics office, was established within the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. Thalassaemia, which is an important health problem in Iran, was chosen to test the feasibility of preventing non-communicable disease in primary care. We describe how the programme has been implemented.
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