In Japan, screening programs for various cancers have been eagerly conducted as part of
public health policy. However, these programs have not always produced the results that …

This paper gives an overview of evidence-based practice in health promotion, with reference
mainly to the National Health Service (NHS) context within the UK, but with wider …

Background. Health screening programs can be represented as a pathway of sequential
processes: offering a test, obtaining consent, conducting the test, providing results, and …

The mHealth field focuses on the use of mobile technologies to support hospital care,
healthy behavior, patient monitoring, and educational awareness. It is a new field that is …

Background Business owners in the Republic of Korea must take part in the workers'
general health examination. However, there have been few formal analyses of the uptake of …

The object of the study was to evaluate blood pressure, insulin and glucose metabolism, and
serum lipids in hypertensive patients, during 8 weeks on a moderately salt-restricted diet. A …

Recent decades have witnessed a tremendous shift from laparotomy to laparoscopy as the
surgical approach of choice in gynecology. Completion of increasingly complicated …

Preventive services are delivered at rates far below recommended levels. Although lack of
time has frequently been cited as an important factor, little is known about how much time …

In May 2023, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) posted a new draft
recommendation for breast cancer screening, recommending mammography screening for …

Background Access to screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment programmes for
alcohol use have been shown to be effective; however, little is known about access to these …