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Eurocare's Alcohol and Pregnancy Conference. 9 September, European Parliament
Over 100 people attended the Conference Eurocare held in the European Parliament to mark the ”International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Day” on Wednesday 9th September 2009.
Hosted by the Swedish Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats
The Conference was jointly organized by Eurocare and the Swedish Presidency of the European Union to mark International Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Day.
This meeting brought together Public authorities and experts who shared their experiences and good practices, and discussed the different policy options to curb its incidence.
Click here to download the final conference report
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Presentations
Risks associated to prenatal exposure to alcohol
- Dr Diane Black: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Foundation of the Netherlands
Dimension of the problem: alcohol consumption among pregnant women
- Italy: Prof. Mauro Ceccanti - Università La Sapienza di Roma and Centro di Riferimento Alcologico
- Spain: Dr Oriol Vall- Unitat de Recerca Infància i Entorn (URIE), Paediatric Service, Hospital del Mar
- Ireland: Dr Siobhan Barry - Coombe Women's Hospital in Dublin
What can be done?: Recommendations on effective measures to tackle the problem
- Dr Kieran O'Malley: Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Belfast Trust, Northern Ireland
Examples of good practices:
- Learning from other countries experiences:Catalonia (Spain) by Joan Colom (Department of Health. Government Catalonia); Poland by Mr Gorski and Magdalena Pietruska (PARPA)
- Evaluation Study of the French experience with the pictogram: Juliette Guillemont (INPEES - Institut national de prévention et d'éducation pour la santé)
- Evaluation of the UK labelling voluntary agreement: Don Shenker (Alcohol Concern)
- The experience of the Association of Swedish Midwives: Catharina Zatterstrom
- FAS policlinic (Germany): Dr. rer. med. Reinhold Feldmann
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