Health
screening is the preventive care that is provided by executing
different types of lifesaving medical tests in order to reveal the
potential life-threatening diseases before they could occur or become
more serious.
Health
screening sometimes referred to as physical examinations or body
exams are a part of patient care provided by the health clinics. You
may have heard the expression, “prevention
is better than cure”. In the same way,
early detection of infections or severe health conditions, or
diseases is important not only to ensure that you will never come
into the clutch of life-threatening health issues but also save your
cost of expensive medical treatments.
Therefore,
periodic body exams need to be conducted to always be informed about
the current health status. Doctors execute various procedures to
provide patients all the benefits associated with physical exams.
Mentioned below are the most common benefits associated with
healthcare screening:
- Human body is constantly changing living creators. You never know when the infections or bacteria of sever disease begin to grow in your body. Therefore, regular body exams help you determining the symptoms of diseases in their early stages. As a result, doctors (in case patient is found with the signs of potential disease) depending upon the examination reports can start the appropriate treatment to save your life.
- This also encourages heath awareness among people.
- A complete bodily exam is more cost effective than treating a sever health condition.
What
does a comprehensive physical test involve?
A basic
physical test should include:
- Analysis of individuals’ medical history: Before starting with the body tests, doctors review the patients’ previous health records, family medical history, medications etc. As a result of this analysis, your family or regular doctor come to know that what type of tests are required.
- Body Examination: Body examination involves the execution of various types of tests like cardiac diagnosis tests, blood pressure reading, cholesterol screening, diabetes screening etc., and test of other major body parts.
- Laboratory examinations:
It
includes variety of tests like test on the collected specimens of
blood and urine that reveals the internal infections or diseases that
are not easily come into the notice with body exams.
- Additional exams:
Other
tests like E.C.G, Ultrasound, X-ray etc., are also come in the
comprehensive body test program.
Who
should undergo physical tests?
Adults
of all ages can undergo health screenings. It is advised to those
with family history of severe diseases to for checkup on regular
basis. People above the age of 40 are at higher risks of developing
diseases or heath conditions due to lifestyle, diet, environment and
the nature of work, and other situations etc.
Scheduling regular healthcare screening helps you keeping up-to-date
with the present health status with high degree of accuracy.