Sentence examples for voluntary screening from inspiring English sources

Voluntary screening dates to 1996, but in recent years, routine offers of such testing stopped because of budgetary and space issues.

But this afternoon in the House of Commons, the armed forces minister, John Spellar, unexpectedly announced that the government was setting up a voluntary screening program for service personnel and civilians who served in the Balkans.

Following some of the sensational reporting, to reassure members of the armed forces who remain concerned, it has been decided to put in place an additional appropriate voluntary screening programme, to be constructed with the advice of reputable independent scientific bodies, including the Royal Society.

Students were asked to participate in voluntary screening of health behaviors upon arrival at SHS.

The model accounts quite naturally for the observation that providing health information or voluntary screening services can actually increase social inequalities in health, since they are taken up differentially by those of higher socioeconomic position [20].

Voluntary screening at a similar centre in the UK reported that 94% were screened [ 16].

Jewish Ethiopians who migrate to Israel are voluntary screened upon arrival while naturalised, and documented migrant workers are screened in their countries of origin before being granted a work visa.

In France, the Haute Autorité de Santé [ 44, 45] recently recommended one-time universal, routine, voluntary HIV screening in the general population, and more frequent screening in higher-risk groups.

However, uptake rates for voluntary breast screening in older women are low (with only 10% of all screen detected cancer arising in the over 65 years age group in the UK NHS Breast Screening Program Auditt, 2003).

Current CDC HIV testing guidelines suggest routine, voluntary HIV screening in all persons age 13 64 yrs old in health care settings, regardless of risk; repeat HIV screening at least annually in persons with known risk factors; and opt-out HIV screening with the opportunity to ask questions and the option to decline testing (Branson et al 2006).

We applied the reasoned action framework to examine parental intentions to participate in voluntary expanded screening.