[Present state and future of the self-test in preventive medicine].
The preventive medicine changes from secondary prevention of early detection and early treatment to primary prevention of the avoidance of pathopoiesis and health-Crisis. In present state, there is no a clinical laboratory which should respond to this proposition of the fact with the convention at all. As well as clinical laboratory in the hospital, the clinical laboratory in preventive medicine has also been centralized to the Health screening facilities. The immediacy of The clinical laboratory which can be measured, when it wants to measure it, Is required in order to grasp "bio-information" for avoiding the crisis of the disease. It become important that simultaneously, some relating inspection items are measured a case in which it wants to attempt. It waits for the possibility of a disease state grasp from the self measuring device that it is convenient and that the accuracy is high for health-crisis and pathopoiesis avoidance as a primary prevention in order to rapidly improve the accuracy of the weather forecast by the launch of the meteorological satellite.
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R&D Div., ISO-KEN Institute of medicine, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 155-0033.
D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D006801:Humans; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D012648:Self Care