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Screening : evidence and practice /

By: Raffle, Angela E.
Contributor(s): Gray, J. A. Muir (John Armstrong Muir).
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xiv, 317 p. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0199214492 (alk. paper); 9780199214495:; 9780199214495 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Medical screeningDDC classification: 362.177
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 362.177 RAF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0051453
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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.

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