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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2009 Jul;2(7):897–907. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.01.018

Table 1.

World Health Organization Criteria for Screening

  • The condition sought should be an important health problem for the individual and community.

  • There should be an accepted treatment or useful intervention for patients with the disease.

  • The natural history of the disease should be adequately understood.

  • There should be a latent or early symptomatic stage.

  • There should be a suitable and acceptable screening test or examination.

  • Facilities for diagnosis and treatment should be available.

  • There should be an agreed policy on whom to treat as patients.

  • Treatment started at an early stage should be of more benefit than treatment started later.

  • The cost should be economically balanced in relation to possible expenditure on medical care as a whole.

  • Case finding should be a continuing process and not a once and for all project.