Screening & diagnostics

Core screening & diagnostics

1.3.1 Policy interventions

Policy level interventions should include:

  • Subsidize and Mandate Preventative Care: Ensuring that preventative screenings, such as mammograms, colonoscopies, and genetic risk assessments, are fully covered by health insurance and financially accessible would remove financial barriers that often deter people from getting screened.
  • Establish National Health Data Infrastructure: Cancer and other health data registries are commonplace and have enabled proactive programmes such as a call-recall system for cancer screening. Going forward, interoperable digital health system that collects and analyzes anonymized health data would allow for the development of AI-powered diagnostic tools to identify at-risk populations and personalize screening recommendations on a population-wide scale.
  • Fund Ongoing Research and Development: Provide dedicated public and private funding for research into geroscience and aging biology to support the development of new biomarkers, diagnostic tests, and therapies that target the root causes of aging.
  • Launch Public Health Education Campaigns: Improving health literacy, such as the understanding of health risks, and educating the public on the importance of preventative screening would help shift cultural attitudes towards proactive health management.
  • Integrate Screening into Primary Care: Incentivizing or mandating that primary care physicians incorporate a wider range of preventative screenings into routine check-ups would make early detection a standard part of medical care.
  1. 1.1 Introduction
  2. 1.2 Strategy
    1. 1.2.1 Considerations by age group
  3. 1.3 Policy
    1. 1.3.1 Policy interventions
  4. 1.4 Private sector
    1. 1.4.1 Prenatal screening
    2. 1.4.2 Postnatal and childhood screening
    3. 1.4.3 Clinical health screening
    4. 1.4.4 Screening for old age disorders
    5. 1.4.5 Self-examinations
    6. 1.4.6 Screening for high risk individuals