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Set out a public-health framework for deciding when screening is appropriate, including criteria concerning disease importance, natural history, tests, treatment, facilities, acceptability, policy, cost and continuing case-finding.
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The record is the exact two-author 1968 WHO Public Health Paper. It is a screening-policy framework, not proof that any particular programme improves outcomes, and it does not absorb later revisions, trial evidence or programme-specific guidance.
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J. M. G. Wilson; G. Jungner
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Wilson and Jungner: principles and practice of screening for disease
Set out a public-health framework for deciding when screening is appropriate, including criteria concerning disease importance, natural history, tests, treatment, facilities, acceptability, policy, cost and continuing case-finding.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact two-author 1968 WHO Public Health Paper. It is a screening-policy framework, not proof that any particular programme improves outcomes, and it does not absorb later revisions, trial evidence or programme-specific guidance.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
J. M. G. Wilson; G. Jungner
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.