Preventing Disease

1 The Scientific Admissibility of Evidence on the Effectiveness of Preventive Interventions.- 2 Analytic Principles in Assessing the Effectiveness of Clinical Preventive Services.- Perinatal Medicine.- 3 Intrauterine Growth Retardation and the Routine Use of Serial Ultrasound.- 4 Intrapartum Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring: A Review of Current Status for the Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination.- Prevention in Childhood.- 5 Well-Baby Visits.- 6 Immunization, Immunoprophylaxis, and Chemoprophylaxis to Prevent Selected Infections.- 7 Preschool Screening: A Review of the Evidence.- Societal Problems.- 8 Physical Activity for Healthy Adults: Counseling as a Primary Preventive Intervention in Clinical Settings.- 9 Smoking Cessation: Attributes of Successful Interventions.- 10 Early Detection and Counseling of Problem Drinkers.- 11 Unwanted Teenage Pregnancy: A Canadian Perspective.- 12 Unwanted Teenage Pregnancy: A U.S. Perspective.- 13 Sexually Transmitted Diseases.- 14 Preventing Homicide.- 15 Early Detection of Depression.- 16 Suicide Prevention: A U.S. Perspective.- 17 Suicide Prevention: A Canadian Perspective.- 18 Detecting Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly.- 19 Bereavement: Health Consequences and Prevention Strategies.- 20 Automobile Injury: Selected Risk Factors and Prevention in the Health Care Setting.- 21 Falls in Older Persons: Etiology and Interventions.- Skeletal and Dental Disorders.- 22 Screening for Scoliosis: A Review of the Evidence.- 23 Preventing Low Back Pain.- 24 Postmenopausal Osteoporosis and Fractures.- 25 Preventive Dentistry.- Cancer.- 26 Does Screening for Breast Cancer Save Lives? Effectiveness of Treatment After Breast Cancer Detection Following Screening by Clinical Breast Examination, Mammography, and Breast Self-Examination.- 27 Lung Cancer.- 28 Dietary Fat and Cancers of the Breast, Colon, and Prostate: Evidence of a Causal Relation.- 29 Screening for Testicular Cancer.- 30 Occult Blood Testing for Colorectal Cancer.- 31 Screening Sigmoidoscopy for Colorectal Cancer.- 32 Screening for Cervical Cancer.- 33 Screening for Endometrial Cancer: Why It Is Premature to Recommend It.- Eye and Ear Disorders.- 34 Screening for Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma.- Chapte 35 Screening for Hearing Impairment.- Diabetes Mellitus.- 36 Screening for Diabetes Mellitus.- Urinary Tract Disorders.- 37 Hematuria and Proteinuria.- 38 Bacteriuria.- Cardiovascular Disease.- 39 Dietary Fat and Coronary Heart Disease: Evidence of a Causal Relation.- 40 Elevated Serum Cholesterol in Asymptomatic Adults.- 41 Mild Hypertension: Controversies in Management.- 42 Screening Electrocardiography in Asymptomatic Coronary Heart Disease.- 43 Asymptomatic Cervical Carotid Bruits.- Cost Effectiveness and Policy Issues in Implementation of Preventive Services.- 44 The Cost Effectiveness of Preventive Services: Some Examples.- Cost Effectiveness of Cholesterol Reduction for the Primary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in Men.- Cost Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening Among Elderly Low-Income Women.- Cost Effectiveness of Isoniazid Chemoprophylaxis.- Conclusions.- 45 Technology Assessment and Prevention.- 46 Health Risk Assessment and the Clinical Practice of Preventive Medicine.- 47 Integration of Preventive Services Into Primary Care: A Conceptual Framework for Implementation.- 48 Educating and Counseling for Prevention: From Theory and Research to Principles.