IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/socmed/v45y1997i9p1377-1386.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Opportunities and impediments for a consolidating and expanding profession: Genetic counseling in the United States

Author

Listed:
  • Kenen, Regina H.

Abstract

Genetic counseling in the United States is consolidating and expanding its professional identity at a point in time when major biotechnological advances are rapidly being incorporated into clinical genetic practice and major shifts in the American health care system are being carried out under a mandate of cost-containment. External factors--biomedical advances, political and economic contexts, managed care organizations, health economics criteria and exclusionary strategies of related health care occupations--combined with internal factors--training and certification requirements, specialization, leadership talent and ability to adapt to changing conditions--will strongly influence the structure and scope of genetic counseling services in the coming years.

Suggested Citation

  • Kenen, Regina H., 1997. "Opportunities and impediments for a consolidating and expanding profession: Genetic counseling in the United States," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 45(9), pages 1377-1386, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:45:y:1997:i:9:p:1377-1386
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277-9536(97)00062-2
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:45:y:1997:i:9:p:1377-1386. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/315/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.