We eliminated questionnaires used for screening for illnesses, functional health status, or perceived outcomes of care for specific conditions (e.g. migraines, mental healthcare).
Cultural and social changes in terms of increased materialism and individualism have been discussed in relation to this [ 3, 4], including the possibility of a decreasing stigma about mental illness, improved screening for mental illness, and increased help-seeking behaviors [ 5].
Supported by UNICEF, these mobile teams have doctors, nurses and midwives who drive to far flung villages and areas where displaced have taken refuge and provide basic health and nutrition services to women and children including vaccinations, screening for childhood illnesses, malnutrition and antenatal care and counselling to pregnant women.
Women should be screened for depression during pregnancy and after giving birth, an influential government-appointed health panel said Tuesday, the first time it has recommended screening for maternal mental illness.
The Public Health Service inspectors have been meeting flights arriving from SARS-affected countries in Asia -- both to hand out small information cards about SARS and to give passengers an initial, if cursory, screening for signs of illness.
Screening for symptomatic respiratory illness is a key element of the pediatric preoperative anesthesia assessment.
pKessler RC, Barker PR, Colpe LJ, Epstein JF, Gfroerer JC, Hiripi E, Howes MJ, Normand ST, Manderscheid RW, Walters EE, Zaslavsky AM: Screening for serious mental illness in the general population.
Antenatal care is important in screening for pre-existing illnesses and complications in the early stages of pregnancy that could impact adversely during pregnancy and childbirth [ 24].
The WI-7 is a screening instrument for illness worries representing a cognitive/ emotional approach [ 19].
"In the U.S., psychologists and psychiatrists have long followed specific criteria to screen for mental illness," she wrote.
