[Neonatal screening for congenital metabolic pathologies. Ethical and social aspects. Implications for nurses and midwives].

The authors describe the diseases which are detectable by means of neonatal screening programs available in the different Spanish Autonomous Communities. They analyze some of the ethical and social implications which may occur and they emphasize what those programs mean for nursing professionals, fundamentally midwives and nurses who work in primary health care units or pediatric units.