Dear Editor Shimazaki et al. analyzed oral health examination findings for 4,484 male and female employees aged 35 to 74 in relation to past participation in oral health examinations reported in a questionnaire1) and concluded that workplace oral health examination accompanied by oral health instruction may be effective for maintenance of periodontal health. We think this is an important public...

College students possess an omnipresence reference that influences their assumptions that their youth is equated to good health. For the most part, this logic prevails, until a closer examination of college life experiences reports high risk behaviours, struggles with health issues and the onset of conditions that were preventable by a healthier lifestyle. Suicide deaths, risky sexual practices...

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...

The study determined awareness, use and the main source of information about preventive health examinations among 387 childbearing women attending three health facilities in Uyo, Nigeria. Respondents were consenting women aged 15-49 years who had a live birth in the two months preceding the survey. Respondents were interviewed using structured questionnaires during child welfare clinic visits a...

introduction: breast neoplasia is the most common cancer among women in both developed and developing countries. over 1.15 million women in the world detecting with breast neoplasia each year and the mortality rate is 502,000 cases from this cancer. the purpose of this study was to describe how iranian women perform breast self-examination. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study 4...