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[Music] nowadays we are very lucky that due to medical progress many diseases can be treated to prevent us from getting sick in the first place doctors often order tests to detect and treat diseases earlier so-called screening tests the learning goals of this video are to understand the principles of screening tests and to learn about the benefits and harms of screening what is screening screening is a systematic testing procedure used in an apparently healthy population to find undetected diseases and risk factors screening means that a large number of people are examined to find a few who have a certain disease or risk factors screening is used for people who have no symptoms it is not screening when a woman finds a lump in her breast and is referred for a mammography in such a case a mammography is a diagnostic examination screening can have many different purposes it can be used to find risk factors for a disease for example high blood pressure or to detect a disease early or to de