Search Resources (English): Screening tests

This special issue aims to highlight some of the forces that shape women’s health outcomes. Among these forces are the social determinants of health  such as income, housing, education, and employment, among others, as well as gender, race and other social locations, and also the broader social, political and economic forces that influence and constrain women’s health and their opportunities for achieving health. Another aim is to stimulate discussion on public policies that would promote women’s health and help reduce the social and economic marginalization of women. This issue also examines how cities are platforms for the uneven distribution of resources and opportunities for health, and that public policies must be developed to address these issues.

The website of a group of doctors in Britain concerned about the safety and the ethics of private screening tests, and about companies who advertise those tests. Includes resources to help people decide whether or not to take a screening test.

A series of articles by the author of Seeking Sickness and co-author of Selling Sickness, examining the issues of unnecessary medical screening. Argues that pharmaceutical companies are driving the increased push for screening.