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Doubts on the periodic health examination.
THE LOGIC behind the concept of periodic health examinations as a health maintenance procedure is impeccable. Yet many of us have feelings of doubt about their real value which are in conflict with this logic. Since logic has played only a small part in many of the successes of the scientific method, our doubts are at least respectable. It has however strongly appealed to many medical and lay m...
متن کاملPeriodic Health Examination – A brief history and critical assessment
The start D’Souza,1 stated that the origins of the Periodic Health Examination (PHE) or screening occurred in a brothel in the papal state of Avignon in 1347, “when an abbess and a local surgeon, every Saturday, singly examined women ‘in the home’ and if any of them had contracted any illness by their whoring, they were separated from the rest and not allowed to prostitute themselves for fear t...
متن کاملShould we abandon the periodic health examination?: YES.
Dr Mavriplis states that it is often difficult to dedicate time for preventive care in a busy family practice. According to McWhinney,1 if every patient in a practice of 2000 had a 20-minute annual health examination, it would occupy the physician full-time for 22 weeks of every year. Another study estimated that more than 40% of all direct patient time for primary care physicians is taken up b...
متن کاملRebuttal: Should we abandon the periodic health examination?: NO.
Dr Howard-Tripp raises a very important issue concerning our need to promote cost-effective use of health resources in our health care system. However, ensuring appropriate patients have periodic preventive health examinations is essential to better managing health care costs in our aging society. For example, in 2001 the economic burden of physical inactivity and obesity in Canada was $5.3 bil...
متن کاملEffect of Aditional Brief Counselling after Periodic Health Examination on Motivation for Health Behavior Change
This study was to evaluate the effect of additional brief counseling by a primary care physician on lifestyle modification of examinees after a periodic health examination. 1,000 participants of the 2007 Korean national health screening program were asked to note any variation in their health behavior after participating in the screening program. The degree of comprehensive motivation for lifes...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: GeroFam-A peer reviewed, evidence-based gerontology-oriented family practice journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1309-6478
DOI: 10.5490/gerofam.2010.1.1.7