Primary care for women. Screening tests and preventive services recommendations.
This article reviews public health prevention principles and screening test requirements and discusses current guidelines that underlie widely used preventive services recommendations. The reasons and rationales that govern the screening of healthy asymptomatic women for certain diseases are reviewed. This update will prepare nurse-midwives for enhanced roles in health promotion, an important aspect of the scope of primary care services for women.
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Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY 10032, USA.
D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control; D009721:Nurse Midwives; D011247:Pregnancy; D014481:United States; D016387:Women's Health