title: Preventive services: screening. Health maintenance examinations include screening for diabetes, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, hearing and vision loss.
authors.affiliation: Geriatrics Division, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bluestein
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000517:prevention & control; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D006278:Medicare; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control