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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Public Health Screening"”.
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Optimal Data-driven Methods for Subject Classification in Public Health Screening
… in a subject, is an essential component of public health screening. For many diseases, the concentration of disease-related biomarkers may exhibit a wide range, particularly among the disease positive subjects, in part due to variations caused by external and/or subject-specific factors. …
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Optimal Risk-based Pooled Testing in Public Health Screening, with Equity and Robustness Considerations
… group testing is used in various contexts (e.g., screening donated blood or for sexually transmitted diseases), a lack of understanding of how an optimal grouping scheme should be designed to maximize classification accuracy under a budget constraint hampers screening efforts. We study Dorfman and …
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Robust and Equitable Public Health Screening Strategies, with Application to Genetic and Infectious Diseases
Public health screening plays an important role in the overall healthcare system. As an example, consider newborn screening, a state-level initiative that screens newborns for life-threatening genetic disorders for which early treatment can substantially improve health outcomes. Another topical …
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The Potential for Screening for Interpersonal Violence in Community Pharmacies: an Exploratory Study
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health problem of epidemic proportion; the only known effective health care intervention is routine screening for IPV exposure. Despite professional guidelines for routine screening, this intervention has been poorly adopted. Expansion of screening …
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ETHICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS.
Programmatic vaccination and screening are the reasons for this thesis. The practice of public health incorporating medicine’s cognitive contents along with contributions from other fields of human activities is basically a moral enterprise. It is important that limitations from the whole continuum …