Prevention Keeps Us Stayin’ Alive, Stayin’ Alive, Ah Ha Ha Ha

On this week's episode of the pod, we tackle the topic of prevention and health screenings!

We set the stage by discussing the different types of prevention, and how it is harder to measure the absence of disease than the presence of disease. We talk about the way that prevention and screening recommendations are made in the US, specifically, and different governing bodies involved in the decision-making process. We give some specific examples of recommendations, starting with cervical cancer screening (Pap smears) and the impact that prevention has made on incidence of cervical cancer. We also discuss the reasons why recommendations have changed over time. Next, we discuss vitamin K shots for infants and their importance for prevention of bleeding issues. We shift gears and talk about well checks, bloodwork, and recommended adult vaccines. We close things out with a discussion of colonoscopies and colorectal cancer screening. We covered a lot of ground-- you don't want to miss this one!

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Resources

• NIH: Prevention Strategies

• Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention

• USPSTF Procedure Manual

• Missed Prevention Opportunities

• Cervical Cancer & HPV Infographic

• HPV Vaccine Infographic

• Key Statistics for Cervical Cancer

• The Pap Test

• Why Annual Pap Smears Are History – But Routine Ob-Gyn Visits Are Not

• Cervical Cancer Screening

• Assessment of US Preventive Services Task Force Guideline–Concordant Cervical Cancer Screening Rates and Reasons for Underscreening by Age, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, Rurality, and Insurance, 2005 to 2019

• More Parents Nixing Anti-Bleeding Shots for Their Newborns

• General Health Checks in Adults for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality From Disease: Cochrane Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

• Systematic Review: The Value of the Periodic Health Evaluation

• Opinion: Skip Your Annual Physical

• Preventive Health Examinations and Preventive Gynecological Examinations in the United States

• Improving Value in Health Care — Against the Annual Physical

• Serologic Screening for Genital Herpes Infection

• My Healthfinder Tool

• Seasonal Influenza (Flu) Vaccination and Preventable Disease

• Whooping Cough (Pertussis) Vaccination

• Tetanus Vaccination

• What Vaccines are Recommended for You

• Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests

• Colorectal Cancer: Screening

• Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

• Family Health History

• Familial Adenomatous Polyposis

• Lynch Syndrome