1. name congenital defects caused by a mother’s exposure to an infectious agent or toxic substance during pregnancy. 2. explain how chromosomal abnormalities cause birth defects and influence susceptibility to common diseases of adulthood. 3. describe public health’s role in the prevention of death and disability from genetic disorders. 4. discuss reasons for prenatal and newborn screening and provide examples of testing programs mandated by states. 5. demonstrate potential benefits of identifying genetic risks early in life.

Defects such as neurological abnormalities, down sindrome, non-generate tissues deffects.

Explanation:

Chrosomosal abnormalities are produced during pregnancy, these can be caused primarly by the exposure of the mother of infectuos agents or toxic sustances such as parasites, virus and several diseases that damage the inmunnological deffects, neurological abnormalities that primarly work on the ADN level.

Public health plays a big role during the prevent of death and disability from genetic disorders because it is the preganncy stage in which this disorders appear and are caused, if the mother doessn´t takes a good care of herself and her baby, it damages his whole neurological , physiological and physical development. That´s the reason why governments work from preventive medicine and inform the community all about it.

The importance  of identifying genetic risks early in life is that the mother has time to take a decision of which tools she is going to take in order to fight his newborn´s disease or disability in a efficiency way.

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