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The Burden and Economic Impact of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Canada Svetlana Popova (Principal Investigator), Shannon Lange, Larry Burd and Jürgen Rehm February 2015 The Burden and Economic Impact of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Canada The Burden and Economic Impact of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Canada 1 Economic Impact of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol Spectr [...] The number of children (0-18) in the general population and in care, as well as the prevalence of children in care per 1,000, by province and territory in Canada in 2007. [...] In addition, the guidelines generated during the first National Roundtable held by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC, 2008) were also employed, and the methodologies of the few existing studies on the economic cost of FASD from Canada and the United States were taken into consideration. [...] The World Health Organization (WHO) global strategy to monitor and reduce the harmful use of alcohol, endorsed by the 63rd World Health Assembly, highlights the importance of prevention and identification of the harmful use of alcohol among pregnant women and women of childbearing age, along with treatment and care for individuals and families affected by FASD (WHO, 2010). [...] Thanh and Jonsson (2009), using the methodology of Stade and colleagues (2006, 2009), estimated the annual health care costs for the cohort of children born with FASD in the province of Alberta to be $39.4 million CND, based on a prevalence of 3 per 1,000, and $121.2 million CND, based on a prevalence of 9 per 1,000.