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Screening : evidence and practice /

Raffle, Angela E.

Screening : evidence and practice / - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xiv, 317 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312) 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.

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.

0199214492 (alk. paper) 9780199214495: £24.95 9780199214495 (alk. paper)


Medical screening.

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