Question

What are the benefits and harms of population screening? 3 paragraphs please.

Answer 1

Screening test of a population refers to examining a group of people for a particular disease or any other diseases so that early treatment intervention can be done. It has both benefits and harms as follows:-

Benefits of population screening:-

• Helps in treating the disease much earlier
• Economical
• It helps in preventing half of the new cancer cases
• It helps in detection of Individuals with higher risk of developing a disease.

Harms:-

• Findings are not always clear
• It doest help in treatment of diseases which has progressed
• Time consuming
• X- ray test can be harmful to individuals
• Most of the tests are not 100% reliable.