Costs of screening programmes.

Psychological costs of screening.

May sometimes be bad enough to undermine the benefits ofscreening Screening inevitably has psychological costs-particularly for those who receive bad news or false positive results. The increase in screening that is occurring in many countries demands that these costs be investigated, particularly as some may be avoidable. A positive result in any screening test is invariably received with nega...

Utility of mass screening programmes in health.

Kayima, J.K

Economic Evaluation of Selected Finnish Screening Programmes

Increasing the uptake of cervical screening programmes.

Successful cervical screening programmes depend on the degree of coverage and the rate of attendance. There are many demographic reasons why some women fail to attend for cervical screening, including lack of knowledge and education and socioeconomic status. Moreover, a woman's ethnicity and her age also play a role in screening uptake. Community and practice nurses are ideally positioned to id...

Evaluation of the UK breast screening programmes.

National breast screening programmes were set up in the UK in the early 1990s. Although they are quality-assured and publish process measures of performance, there is a lack of data linking the screening process to breast cancer mortality. A new analysis of trends in England and Wales suggests that the effect of screening has been to reduce mortality by 8% over 10 years in those eligible for sc...