Screening for Good Health : The Australian Guide to Health Screening and Immunisation.

Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Emergency First Aid: Resuscitation, Heart Attack, Allergic Reaction, Stroke, Snake and Spider Bites -- Part 1 Screening and Prevention -- Why Screen? When Is Screening Good Practice? -- Costs versus Benefits -- Defining Normal and Abnormal -- Family History -- Genetic Inheritance -- Genetic Testing -- Screening and the Law -- The Delivery and Affordability of Disease Prevention Services in Australia -- Minimising Out-of-Pocket Costs -- Your Immune System -- How Does Vaccination Work? Why Do Some People Avoid It? -- The Prevalence of Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Australia -- The Australian Vaccination Program -- Cancers-An Overview -- Australian Cancer Statistics -- Part 2 Life Stages -- Age Group Recommendations for Health Screening and Immunisation -- Pregnancy -- Early Childhood -- Young Adult -- Middle Life -- Older Age -- Record Keeping -- Part 3 Alphabetical Listing -- Alzheimer's Disease -- Antenatal and Postnatal Depression -- (Abdominal) Aortic Aneurysm -- Australian Bat Lyssavirus Infection -- Bird Flu (Avian Influenza) -- Bowel Cancer -- Breast Cancer -- Cardiovascular (Heart) Disease -- Cervical Cancer -- Chickenpox (Varicella) -- Chlamydia -- Cholesterol -- Dental Health -- Diabetes -- Diphtheria -- Foetal Abnormality -- Glaucoma Vision Loss -- Growth-Children -- Haemochromatosis (Iron Storage Disease) -- Helicobacter Pylori and Stomach Cancer -- Hepatitis A -- Hepatitis B -- Hepatitis B Screening -- Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) -- Hib -- HIV -- Hypertension (elevated blood pressure) -- Influenza -- Kidney Disease -- Lung Cancer -- Macular Degeneration (Vision Loss) -- Measles -- Meningococcal Disease -- Mesothelioma -- Mumps -- Newborn Babies-Deafness -- The Newborn Physical Examination -- The Newborn Screening Test -- Osteoporosis -- Ovarian Cancer.

Parkinson's Disease -- Pertussis (Whooping Cough) -- Pneumococcal Disease -- Poliomyelitis -- Preschool Children: Development, Vision and Hearing -- Prostate Cancer -- Q Fever -- Rhesus Negative Blood Group Screening -- Rotavirus -- Rubella -- Rubella Immunity Screening -- Sex Hormone Levels -- Skin Cancer -- Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Adults -- Syphilis Screening -- Testicular Cancer -- Tetanus -- Tuberculosis -- Vitamin D Deficiency -- Part 4 Travel -- Travel Preparation -- Traveller Risk Reduction Practices -- The Complete Travel Health Checklist -- Malaria Travel Medication -- Cholera Travel Vaccination -- Hepatitis A Travel Vaccination -- Japanese Encephalitis Travel Vaccination -- Plague Travel Vaccination -- Rabies Travel Vaccination -- Tick-Borne Encephalitis Travel Vaccination -- Meningococcal Disease Travel Vaccination -- Tuberculosis Travel Vaccination -- Typhoid Travel Vaccination -- Yellow Fever Travel Vaccination -- Index -- copyright.

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