Highlighting the importance of being

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Introduction
Health is a condition of full well-being: physical, mental, and social. Highlighting the
importance of being more than disease-free, this concept acknowledges that a healthy body relies
on a healthy environment and a sound mind (Eikemo, Bambra, Huijts and Fitzgerald 2017).
According to a report, if an individual performs his daily tasks like going to the office, taking the
responsibility of the family members or any other sort of daily activity, then he or she is said to
be healthy. For them to remain healthy, it just not refers to not having any health problem, which
hinders with their everyday lives (Eikemo, Bambra, Huijts and Fitzgerald 2017).
There are certain kinds of tests which are conducted as an act of a preventive measure to
recognise a significant health condition or a chronic disease in an individual who might or might
not have the signs or symptoms. Such kinds of tests are called as the screening tests. The main
objective of the screening test is for the early detection of chronic diseases or the symptoms of
the disease to recognise appropriate intervention to treat the condition effectively. There are
various kinds of screening tests to find different type of diseases. Some tests are considered as
beneficial, whereas some benefits of the screening tests are not yet recognised as useful, or can
be said as they are not very clear. Generally, to find out the reasons behind the mechanism of
symptoms, diagnostic tests are conducted. However, the screening tests are different than the
diagnostic tests, as they are done on people who do not feel ill. They aim at detecting illnesses at
an early phase of the disease before any further severe symptoms are observed.

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Analysis
In the paper by Silva-Illanes and Espinoza (2018) discussed about screening tests.
According to them the most important benefit of the screening tests is that it can identify the
diseases at a very early stage. The logic behind treating a disease at an early stage mentioned by
Silva-Illanes and Espinoza is to treat it with appropriate interventions that diagnosing it and
trying to treat it at a later stage when the chances of getting a better health condition are low
(Silva-Illanes and Espinoza, 2018).
In another paper Gil and his other colleagues together did a research on the screening
tests. According to Gill et al. (2016) there are different kinds of screening tests. For instance,
when a mother gives birth to a newborn, then the healthcare physicians offer a sort of test like
the hearing tests, which is one kind of screening test. There is another kind of screening test
which is categorized as the opportunistic screening. It is a kind of test where a person might go
to a physician for a specific reason. When they are there, they may be asked for additional tests
like blood measurement to make the results of the screening more accurate (Gill et al., 2016).
That individual who fits the evaluation criteria is required to perform a voluntary test
during population-wide screening. An x-ray test of the breast (mammography) of women aged
50 to 69 years to detect breast cancer in Germany is an example of this type of testing.
Two steps are usually used in screening. The initial phase aims to find symptoms of this
disease. When there are symptoms of the illness, the findings of a screening test are called
positive and negative if there is no evidence of the disease. The second step consists of more
tests to make the prognosis more precise. Furthermore, this can only be achieved when an
unusual sample is shown, i.e. if the results are positive.