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Providence Health Plan provides health insurance products to more than 285,000 people in Oregon and Washington. An institution that goes back to 1843, Providence Health Plan offers products and services for individuals, families, and Medicare beneficiaries who qualify for Medicaid, and employer groups large and small.

Providence Mission Health Plan is the love of God to all through compassionate service to show that is performed by staff, volunteers and physicians. Its core values of respect, compassion, justice, excellence and accountability.
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Is the periodic health examination worthwhile? Some perspectives

Periodic medical examination is an important tool in the practice of preventive medicine. There must be encouraged to identify themselves as such and for the preservation of health and disease since the early 1900s. And cost, however, has never been proved effective. We, in fact, recently it has become fashionable for certain doctors, spent time and public money on professional examinations of asymptomatic adults as unproductive and pointless challenge, called the proposed medical treatment only in the presence of disease symptoms .
A balanced assessment of the value of periodic health examinations requires the definition of content and method of investigation, persons under investigation, and how often to take the exam. Some procedures have no or very low performance in all circumstances. Most procedures are more effective for certain groups of examinees, particularly in relation to age and family and environmental factors.
During the past decade, methods have been developed for the risk to health or risk analysis, allowing the development of a more efficient periodic medical examination are specifically tailored to groups of pre-symptomatic disease easier. One can assume that the refinement establish the risk associated with research methods in the next ten years for the value of periodic medical examinations as a basic tool in medical practice. Cancer 47:1210-1214, 1981.

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