title: Genetic counselling--a contemporary approach.
abstract: With improvements in living standards in many parts of the world and advances in medicine and surgery, infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies are becoming less common causes of morbidity and mortality. As these environmental diseases have declined, others have been uncovered which are largely, or even entirely, genetically determined.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005817:Genetic Counseling; D030342:Genetic Diseases, Inborn / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D007316:Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive / Q000523:psychology