Detection and Prevention of Chronic Disease Utilizing Multiphasic Health Screening Techniques: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly ...89-2, September 20-22, 19661966 - 648 pages |
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... death . We seek to detect and prevent chronic disease before it weakens or overwhelms its victims and eventually destroys them . We can and must believe that a great nation , in an age of technological marvels , can enter an age of ...
... death . We seek to detect and prevent chronic disease before it weakens or overwhelms its victims and eventually destroys them . We can and must believe that a great nation , in an age of technological marvels , can enter an age of ...
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... death is now about $ 93.5 billion annually . That sum , the latest available estimate from HEW , includes the probable losses in income related to death or disability . If we were to do absolutely nothing about reducing the incidence of ...
... death is now about $ 93.5 billion annually . That sum , the latest available estimate from HEW , includes the probable losses in income related to death or disability . If we were to do absolutely nothing about reducing the incidence of ...
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... deaths from cervical cancer ; we can stop many of the personal and social evils caused by un- necessary blindness or ... death before his time ? What I have said is not to belittle the spectacular gains that have been made in therapeutic ...
... deaths from cervical cancer ; we can stop many of the personal and social evils caused by un- necessary blindness or ... death before his time ? What I have said is not to belittle the spectacular gains that have been made in therapeutic ...
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... death , long - term illness and disability ? Can we measure these ? Is it really impractical to think of preventive care for all of our adult population ? Is it really a question of simple arithmetic - too many examina- tions X ( times ) ...
... death , long - term illness and disability ? Can we measure these ? Is it really impractical to think of preventive care for all of our adult population ? Is it really a question of simple arithmetic - too many examina- tions X ( times ) ...
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... death , long - term illness and disability ? Can we measure these ? Is it really impractical to think of preventive care for all of our adult population ? Is it really a question of simple arithmetic - too many examina- tions X ( times ) ...
... death , long - term illness and disability ? Can we measure these ? Is it really impractical to think of preventive care for all of our adult population ? Is it really a question of simple arithmetic - too many examina- tions X ( times ) ...
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Page 32 - The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one: it must husband its resources to live. But health or fulness answers its own ends and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
Page 146 - Disease, held in 1951, defined screening as "the presumptive identification of unrecognized disease or defect by the application of tests, examinations, or other procedures which can be applied rapidly.
Page v - Peterson (Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Branch, Division of Research Services, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Bethesda, Md.).
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Page 480 - April 17, I am forwarding herewith the response to the list of questions specifically directed to the Golden 65 program. Also enclosed is a revision of the first page of our response to the general questionnaire for Golden 65 previously...
Page 486 - Chairman, Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly, Special Committee on Aging, US Senate, Washington, DC DEAR SENATOB MCNAMABA: The attached information is submitted in response to your letter of March 10 and that of Mr.
Page 486 - If I can be of further assistance, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, DREW C.
Page 233 - I would like to say that I am very pleased to be here to speak on a subject that is of some interest to us in the field of public health.
Page 375 - Wilkerson, HLC and Krall. LP : Diabetes in a New England town, JAMA 135, 209-16, 1947.