Screening: evidence and practice

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A comprehensive, practical, and accessible guide to screening programmes, for public health practitioners and anyone else involved in or with an interest in screening. It covers the concepts and evidence behind screening, how to make sound policy on screening, and how to plan and deliver high quality programmes at affordable cost

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Full title :Screening : evidence and practice / Angela E. Raffle, Anne Mackie, J.A. Muir Gray

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Publication Date:2019
Edition:Second edition

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019

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Description:1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780192528650, 0192528653, 9780191843853, 0191843857
oclc:on1103320286
LC Classification:RA427.5
Dewey Decimal:362.17/7

1. How screening started; The aim of the chapter; Pre-modern screening; Modern screening; Post-modern screening; Summary points; Test yourself -- 2. What screening is, and is not; The aim of the chapter; Definitions and meanings; The kind of screening that this book is about; Screening in everyday language; Current meanings within health services across the globe; Where screening fits in the disease pathway; Other kinds of testing in people without signs or symptoms; Screening is different from clinical practice; Principles of screening; Genetics and screening; Summary points; Test yourself -- 3. What screening does; The aim of the chapter; Putting people through the screening system; The experience for those being screened; The system and its outcomes; Summary points; Test yourself -- 4. Measuring what a screening programme does; The aim of the chapter; Three main sources of bias in screening evaluation; Three main methods for evaluating screening programmes; Measures of test performance; Two additional sources of information; Summarizing all information on outcomes; A note on sound science; Summary points; Test yourself -- 5. Implementing screening programmes; The aim of the c…

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Dépistage (Médecine) HEALTH POLICY Mass Screening -- ethics Mass Screening -- organization & admini… Medical policy Medical screening POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy politique sanitaire