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

Regina H. Kenen

Social Science & Medicine, 1997, vol. 45, issue 9, 1377-1386

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.

Keywords: biotechnology; cost-containment; genetic; counseling; genetic; testing; managed; care; profession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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