PREVALENCE OF CEREBRAL PALSY AND OTHER NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

[Overview]
[Epidemiological Challenges]
[Maternal and Child Health Research Data Base]
[Diagnostic changes influencing rates]
[Incidences, Prevalence and Changes in Survival]
[Autism Trends - how can they be interpreted ?]
[Trends in selected neurodisabilities]
[Trends in Neural Tube Defects]
[Australien sales of folic acid]
[Congenital Hypothyroidism]
[Conclusions]
[Intellectual Disability]
[Trends in Cerebral Palsy]
[Population changes know to be influencing trends]
[Folate and Spina bifida]
[Fetal Alcohol Syndrome]
[Indicators of social disruption in Australia]
[A Crisis in Developmental Health and Wellbeing]
[Implication for research and prevention]
[Acknowledgements]

Presentation to the
Novartis Foundation
February 2002

Professor Fiona Stanley AC
Institute for Child Health Research
Perth Western Australia

RECENT TRENDS IN NEURODISABILITY :
IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND PREVENTION

PREVALENCE OF CEREBRAL PALSY AND OTHER NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

L'AUGMENTATION DE L'INCIDENCE DES TROUBLES NEUROLOGIQUES D'ORIGINE PERINATALE
Professor Fiona Stanley, Institute for Child Health Research, Perth, Australia www.ichr.uwa.edu.au