TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Community and Preventive Medicine
A1  - Pannu, Amanda Ashcraft
A2  - Le, Tao,
A2  - Mendoza, Michael D.,
A2  - Coffa, Diana,
A2  - Saint-Hilaire, Lamercie,
PY  - 2018
T2  - First Aid for the® Family Medicine Boards, 3<sup>rd</sup> Edition
AB  - 1°  prevention:  Disease  prevention  measures  such  as  counseling  for  at-risk  behaviors,  immunizations,  and  chemoprevention  that  are  taken  before  the  disease  develops.2°  prevention:  Defined  as  early  detection  and  treatment  of  asymptomatic  disease,  including  risk  assessment.3°  prevention:  Management  of  chronic  diseases  to  prevent  or  minimize  complications.Characteristics  that  make  a  disease  appropriate  for  screening  include:Disease  leads  to  significant  morbidity  and  mortality.Effective  treatment  is  available.Disease  is  detectable  in  the  asymptomatic  period.Testing  is  accurate  and  simple.Treatment  administered  during  the  asymptomatic  period  yields  a  better  outcome  than  treatment  in  the  symptomatic  period.Characteristics  of  risk  factors  that  would  be  appropriate  for  screening  are:High  prevalence  of  the  risk  factor  in  the  population  to  be  screened.Large  portions  of  those  with  the  risk  factor  are  unidentified.Associated  disease  should  have  a  high  incidence  in  the  population  to  be  screened.Disease  should  have  serious  consequences.Readily  available  treatment  that  can  modify  the  risk  factor.Risk  modification  should  ↓  disease  incidence.  
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PB  - McGraw Hill
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/10/11
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1208793915
ER  -