Which health screenings are recommended?
Health is defined as a state where the body and society are completely healthy, and there is just no disease. Screening refers to the use of typical and inexpensive diagnostic tests to examine a group of asymptomatic people for high-probability diseases. Screening tests classify healthy people who may have the disease from those who do not. Through early detection of selected diseases or conditions, health screening is effective even if there are no symptoms or signs of the disease. Early detection of the disease means receiving the right treatment at the right time, allowing patients to better control their health.
In the 1940s, mass microradiography (MMR) demonstrated the benefits of disease detection to identify patients with tuberculosis (TB). The effective treatment of tuberculosi...