Prevention and screening · for people who are not ill
Thenextthirtyyears,
writtendown
inorder.
Three answers, and you get a calendar that runs decades forward. Every item carries the case against it as well as the case for.
Ninety seconds. No account,
nothing stored off your device.
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screenings, checks and vaccines
2 sides
for every single one
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scare tactics
the instruments are below
“A thirty per cent increase” is almost never what you think
Relative risk is a ratio. Absolute risk is people. Move both and watch how small most headlines actually are.
Baseline risk, per 100 people
4
The headline says risk rises by
30%
4
people in 100 before
5.2
people in 100 after
+1.2
the whole difference
A 30% rise on a baseline of 4 in 100 means about 1.2 more people in every hundred. That is the number that belongs in the headline, and it is the number that is almost always left out.
The moves that matter
Ranked by effect, not by fashion
Family history
What happened to them changes what applies to you
Tick anything that happened to a parent, brother or sister. Each one has a specific consequence, and most of them are never mentioned in a ten minute appointment.
What this changes for you
0
Nothing ticked. If genuinely nobody close to you has had any of these, that is itself worth knowing, and this section stays quiet.
One room, mostly questions that start with should I
Should I take the PSA test. Should I bother with the flu jab. Should I be worried about this headline. Answered by clinicians under their real names.
Opens with the full platform. Your alias already works here.
The honest part
Three things most prevention writing leaves out
No, and that is the honest part most health writing skips. Every test finds things that would never have harmed you, and finding them costs biopsies, operations, and years of anxiety. A good screening programme is one where the benefit clearly exceeds that cost for a defined group, which is why the ages and intervals are specific rather than generous.
Three answers, and the next thirty years arrive in order.