Genetic screening.
Genetic screening is contrasted with genetic counselling in three different ways: it is a pro-active rather than reactive, this means that make a genetic screening is going to create a situation, in this case is going to create questions and answers; the second contrasting way is that genetic screening involves the offer of genetic testing, according to this, make a genetic screening is always done by consent of the individual and has to be presented as an offer to do it, this point, also carries the issue of informed consent that all the client has the right to know, because the field of genetic counselling is new, a lot of people may have little knowledge and no experience of the condition and the way they are doing the test; but in some cases and in some countries, there are tests that have to be compulsory, the last one is that the testing is aimed at a whole population rather than individuals and their immediate families; this is one of the principal objectives, because when someone is doing a test about any disease, is necessary to have a consensus among a big group like a family, to get enough data to work and recollect all useful knowledge about the disease.
We have four types of genetic screening programme: Newborn screening, Carrier screening, prenatal screening and Susceptibility screening.
The first one in use as a way to treat disorders, and with this early diagnosis can generates and improves the outlook for an affected individual. These kinds of screening have presented a lot of benefits to treat diseases and give protection to those children that are suffering or are susceptible to the disease, therefore, some countries have been instituted but with little explanation for the parents, due to such screening has usually been routinized, making of these programme compulsory. But another view of point of this compulsory programme is