Earth Citizens' Health

Our goal in this blog is to promote a Triple Approach to the Earth Citizens' Health. This Triple Approach consists of : 1) Quaternary Prevention (Preventing Unnecessary Interventions in Clinical Medicine and Public Health ), 2) Prevention of Diseases and Treatment of Patients by Improving Living Conditions and Social Prescribing, 3) Preconception Prevention of Diseases by Preconception Planning.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Nine part series of The Conversation Web Site on Overdiagnosis


Part one:  Preventing over-diagnosis: how to stop harming the healthy

Part two: Over-diagnosis and breast cancer screening: a case study


Part three: The perils of pre-diseases: forgetfulness, mild cognitive impairment and pre-dementia


Part four: How genetic testing is swelling the ranks of the ‘worried well’


Part five: PSA screening and prostate cancer over-diagnosis


Part six: Over-diagnosis: the view from inside primary care


Part seven: Moving the diagnostic goalposts: medicalising ADHD


Part eight: The ethics of over-diagnosis: risk and responsibility in medicine


Part nine: Ending over-diagnosis: how to help without harming
Posted by Mohammad Zakaria Pezeshki, MD
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