Screening: Evidence and practice
Angela E. Raffle and J. A. Muir Gray
Abstract
This book presents a wealth of experience derived from improvements in UK screening over recent years and it covers all aspects of screening. The first four chapters of the book deal with concepts, methods, and evidence, explaining what screening is and how it is evaluated. Chapters five to eight describe practical aspects, for example how to make policy, and how to deliver screening to a high standard. The book includes many examples and real-life case histories, a glossary of medical terms, and each chapter concludes with a summary and self-test questions. Reference is made to the UK Nationa ... More
This book presents a wealth of experience derived from improvements in UK screening over recent years and it covers all aspects of screening. The first four chapters of the book deal with concepts, methods, and evidence, explaining what screening is and how it is evaluated. Chapters five to eight describe practical aspects, for example how to make policy, and how to deliver screening to a high standard. The book includes many examples and real-life case histories, a glossary of medical terms, and each chapter concludes with a summary and self-test questions. Reference is made to the UK National Health Service, a leader in screening, but the book is internationally relevant because the principles of good screening apply in any setting. The controversies, paradoxes, uncertainties, and ethical dilemmas of screening are explained in a balanced way.
Keywords:
health,
screening,
prevention,
early detection,
screening policy,
screening evaluation,
ethics,
history of screening,
screening controversies
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199214495 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199214495.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Angela E. Raffle, author
Consultant in Public Health, Bristol Primary Care Trust and the National Screening Programmes; Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol Department of Social Medicine, UK
J. A. Muir Gray, author
Programmes Director, UK National Screening Committee
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