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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... population , particularly our elderly population . Now that we have Medicare , and now that the emotional arguments against it have dwindled , even if they are not dead , we can see it for what it is : A vital , overdue , but limited ...
... population , particularly our elderly population . Now that we have Medicare , and now that the emotional arguments against it have dwindled , even if they are not dead , we can see it for what it is : A vital , overdue , but limited ...
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... population ? Is it really a question of simple arithmetic - too many examina- tions X ( times ) too many people X ( times ) too few doctors ? Can we bring to bear the results of research and new developments in medical technology so ...
... population ? Is it really a question of simple arithmetic - too many examina- tions X ( times ) too many people X ( times ) too few doctors ? Can we bring to bear the results of research and new developments in medical technology so ...
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... population or providing it to the population ; and , secondly , the followup . In order to do adequate screening of any sort , 14 DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF CHRONIC DISEASE.
... population or providing it to the population ; and , secondly , the followup . In order to do adequate screening of any sort , 14 DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF CHRONIC DISEASE.
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... population is being screened and in a sense who is coming . If you do this , for example , out on the street corner , which is one of the ways in which screening has always been done , there is a kind of a preselection by the person ...
... population is being screened and in a sense who is coming . If you do this , for example , out on the street corner , which is one of the ways in which screening has always been done , there is a kind of a preselection by the person ...
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... population in this country ? Dr. EBERT . Well , this is a very difficult question to answer , Senator Williams , because it depends upon how Senator WILLIAMS . Is there not a rule of thumb , one doctor for every - what - 1,000 population ...
... population in this country ? Dr. EBERT . Well , this is a very difficult question to answer , Senator Williams , because it depends upon how Senator WILLIAMS . Is there not a rule of thumb , one doctor for every - what - 1,000 population ...
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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.
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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.