Equity Issues in Newborn Screening

Dear Colleagues,

In the pursuit of health equity, newborn screening (NBS) was born as a public health strategy more than 60 years ago with the vision of social justice through beneficence for all presymptomatic neonates who may have certain potentially debilitating conditions that manifest in infancy/early childhood and—if identified in the first few days of life—can receive treatment deemed efficacious. Guided by the lens of equity—regardless of social determinants of health—the implementation of this powerful public heath tool in the ensuing decades has had significant success, as well as challenges, for newborns, families, regions, and society. Owing to technological advances, we have witnessed how access to screening, diagnosis, therapies, and long-term follow-up care are critical. However, enormous inequities remain, and disparities grow on a global scale, both within and between countries.

For this Special Issue, entitled “Equity Issues in Newborn Screening”, we seek a broad range of perspectives to provide insights into various aspects of equity issues that contribute to our understanding of, and ability to address, equity as related to newborn screening.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Policy considerations surrounding proposed solutions;
• Comparative global reviews;
• Original research articles on equity issues;
• Ethical analyses of equity issues in a country or region;
• Implementation: how an NBS programme addressed/s equity issues;
• Assessing equity: how a programme or policy measures equity or the lack thereof;
• Scholarly perspective pieces;
• Equity challenges in the lab, public health setting, and/or clinical follow-up.

Dr. Lynn Wein Bush
Dr. Juan Francisco Cabello
Dr. Amy Brower
Guest Editors

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