The field of screening is a priori very broad. According to the World Health Organization, "screening consists in presumptively identifying, by means of tests, examinations or other techniques capable of rapid application, subjects suffering from a past disease or abnormality until then unnoticed . " However, once the situations in which the patient reports a symptom (the doctors speak of a call sign) or the current Covid-19 epidemic situation have been ruled out, this field is narrower than we think, focused in particular on some cancers, sexually transmitted infections, overweight, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, depression, osteoporosis and domestic violence.
On July 2, during an internet session of the 14th congress of general medicine, Professor Jacques Cornuz presented these recommendations, from the University Center of General Medicine and Public Health (Unisanté) which he directs in Switzerland. "We have
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