Discuss the relative merits of screening for disease in communities, and be sure to include examples of appropriate and inappropriate situations for screening.

The first impression of many who enter the public health field is that we should be doing much more community health screening in America, finding disease earlier in its course when it can best be treated. There are problems inherent in widespread community health screening.Discuss the relative merits of screening for disease in communities, and be sure to include examples of appropriate and inappropriate situations for screening.