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The team collaborates with
health-care providers, academic centers, community-based
organizations, and national and international preventive health
agencies to implement specialized prevention programs for persons
with these disorders and their families. A key activity involves
collaborating with networks of specialized health-care centers
throughout the United States.
Currently, the branch has four
key goals:
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enhance blood safety to prevent the
transmission of infectious diseases to persons being treated with
blood products
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identify risk factors through
evidence-based research and surveillance and implement interventions
to prevent complications of blood disorders
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prevent and reduce complications of
bleeding and clotting disorders that specifically affect women's
health
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develop and deliver consistent
prevention education messages to encourage affected persons to make
informed decisions about their own health care
The Division of Blood Disorders is organized into four
units:
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The public health translation unit applies the latest
scientific advances from surveillance, epidemiology, and laboratory
support to enhance the delivery of care, prevention services, and
information for the affected populations.
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The surveillance unit monitors the extent of disease,
the risk factors, and the related complications; conducts field
investigations; and identifies areas for further study. Part of this
unit's monitoring work involves collecting and storing blood samples in a
national repository to use as resource material to facilitate rapid
response to future outbreaks.
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The epidemiology unit conducts special studies to
better understand risk factors and the means of preventing and reducing
complications.
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The laboratory unit supports the epidemiologic studies
by identifying new genetic markers of risk factors and clotting defects,
provides reference laboratory diagnosis for multi-site epidemiologic and
surveillance studies, and develops techniques and interpretation methods
to improve molecular and coagulation diagnosis.
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Date:June 20, 2006
Content source: National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental
Disabilities
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