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''' | '''Primary purpose:''' To provide guidance to policy-makers and public health leads in the WHO European Region on planning, designing, and implementing effective screening programs while considering evidence-based decision-making, quality assurance, and minimizing potential harm, costs, and burdens on the healthcare system. | ||
''' | '''Sponsor, manager or home institution:''' [[dataOwner::WHO Regional Office for Europe]]. | ||
'''Type of information:''' [[Data Dictionary: Guide: Screening programmes: a short guide. Increase effectiveness, maximize benefits and minimize harm]] | |||
Aims of screening programmes; Wilson & Jungner’s principles of screening; Screening programmes as pathways; Understanding how screening tests work in practice; Benefits and harm of screening; Balancing benefits and harm; Deciding whether to start or stop a screening programme; Designing effective screening programmes; Operational readiness; Operating a screening programme; Monitoring and evaluation. | |||
''' | '''Data level''': [[dataLevel::european level]]. | ||
''' | '''Cancer areas of interest:''' | ||
'''Access to information:''' | '''Access to information:''' [https://www.who.int/europe/publications/i/item/9789289054782 Click here to access]. | ||
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Primary purpose: To provide guidance to policy-makers and public health leads in the WHO European Region on planning, designing, and implementing effective screening programs while considering evidence-based decision-making, quality assurance, and minimizing potential harm, costs, and burdens on the healthcare system.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Type of information: Data Dictionary: Guide: Screening programmes: a short guide. Increase effectiveness, maximize benefits and minimize harm Aims of screening programmes; Wilson & Jungner’s principles of screening; Screening programmes as pathways; Understanding how screening tests work in practice; Benefits and harm of screening; Balancing benefits and harm; Deciding whether to start or stop a screening programme; Designing effective screening programmes; Operational readiness; Operating a screening programme; Monitoring and evaluation.
Data level: european level.
Cancer areas of interest:
Access to information: Click here to access.
