Screening : evidence and practice
Raffle, Angela EAuthor
Gray, J. A. MuirContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2007.
Screening is the routine testing of populations to identify individuals who may have a particular medical condition or disease. This book covers the theory and evidence behind screening, and serves as a practical, non-technical introduction to the subject, for public health practitioners involved in all aspects of screening.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Screening is the routine testing of populations to identify individuals who may have a particular medical condition or disease. This book covers the theory and evidence behind screening, and serves as a practical, non-technical introduction to the subject, for public health practitioners involved in all aspects of screening.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How screening started -- What screening is, and is not -- What screening does -- Measuring what screening does -- Implementing screening -- Quality assuring screening programmes -- Day to day management of screening for public health practitioners and programme managers -- Making screening policy.
Medical screening
Health Policy
Mass Screening
Organization and Administration
Ethics
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
Health Services Administration
Health Surveys
Public Policy
Diagnostic Services
Morals
Public Health Practice
Data Collection
Psychology, Social
Social Control Policies
Preventive Health Services
Diagnosis
Public Health
Health Care
Epidemiologic Methods
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Policy
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Environment and Public Health
Social Control, Formal
Health Services
Community Health Services
Social Sciences
Psychiatry and Psychology
Quality of Health Care
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
Sociology
Investigative Techniques
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
Public Health - General
Public Health
Health & Biological Sciences