Screening

Thankfully, newborn state screening is performed in the hospital shortly after birth. This test can detect several potential health issues that a newborn may have. This screening provides a public service as it can alert parents to conditions that the child might need to seek treatment for. By being made aware of these conditions, parents can partner with doctors to implement treatments to lessen or prevent harmful results from these conditions. One health issue that newborn screenings test is a…

People go through a lot of unnecessary pain, both physical and emotional due to illnesses. This pain could be greatly reduced by the use of one phenomenon: preventive healthcare. Preventive testing and screening is beneficial to everyone in today’s society because it allows professionals to catch and treat diseases before any symptoms are experienced. Preventive care is an important form of healthcare that is not being utilized by the vast majority of the population (“Preventive Health Care.”…

Some screening question; we thought it would be useful to ‘hear briefly,’ for one last time from all of you, about your, experience throughout our time together. What are some things you most want to remember? What effect has the group experience had on your life? How did your thinking process differ from the other group members? Now, take a moment, to work on phrases that capture how you are feeling about our work together. In addition, what will you take away ‘beneficial’ from your time…

I believe that genetic screening of newborns should be done on all newborns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers newborn-screening tests one of the greatest public health achievements to reducing morbidity and mortality of newborns (CDC, 2011) . Although mandatory screening tests can vary by state, all states screen for at least 26 genetic and endocrine disorders that “saves at least 3,400 additional newborns each year”(CDC, 2011). The March of Dimes (MOD) recommends…

Cancer Screening Cancer screenings are proven methods of reducing the number of women who die of cancer every year. However, there is still a large number of women who do not get screened. This paper will review several programs for effective methods of increasing awareness of the need and number of women who get screened. Every Woman Matters Program The Every Woman Matters (EWM) program is a state managed program for preventive breast and cervical cancer screening. Their aim is to increase…

The article focuses on the population of English language learners who also speak Spanish. The concept being researched in the study is language screening that is used for children that have not yet entered the kindergarten. With the increase in bilingual population, there is a need for an accurate screener that is appropriate for Spanish-English speakers and could detect possible language impairments (LI). Through the use of the Bilingual English Spanish Oral Screener (BESOS), researchers…

There is a great need for a practicable systematic screening test with high sensitivity in order to reduce the missing cases of CH specialy in preterm infants. Evidently pre-term and low birth weight infants require special cares and follow ups.10,11.In this review we try to sytematiclly review previous works in this field and provide a comprehensive protocol for screening of these high risk neonates. Up to this date, a few approaches have been introduced in order to reach this goal. One is…

The major increase in psychiatric drugs prescribed by psychiatrists has raised some alarm among the screening community. Nathaniel Lehrman expresses his concerns about the overmedication of children as a result of mental health screenings in his article “Mental Health Screenings in Schools Can Harm Children”. He accomplishes this through the use of statistics such as, “[t]he sale of psychiatric medications―antipsychotics and antidepressants―rose from $500 million to $20 billion between 1987 and…

Disease screening is when an approach is employed to attempt an identification of a disease in an individual, prior to the presence of any diagnostic signs or symptoms of the disease (https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Encyclopedia/Content.aspx?ContentTypeID=85&ContentID=P00965). Screening has been implemented for several cancers in the United States over the past few decades. For example, the colonoscopy for colorectal cancer and the mammogram for breast cancer. There is some controversy if the…

According to the American Cancer Society the current guidelines for breast screening are that women over the age of 40 should get a yearly mammogram. A clinical breast exam should be done every three years for women over the age of 20. Because breast screening is just a recommendation not all organizations recommend the same thing. For example, The U.S Preventive Services Task Force says that screening does not need to begin until age 50 and instead of every year, mammograms only need to be…