Prevention Programs

Age, lifestyle, inheritance and other factors influence our health, therefore, take the opportunity to test yourself and your relatives.

Prevention programs are implemented to diagnose a disease in early stage, when it is easily curable. To test according to the mentioned programmes, you have to address your family doctor, who will present you the programmes in detail and prescribe necessary analysis. After assessing the possibility of a disease, a patient will be provided with a plan of primary prevention tools; its implementation and efficiency will be monitored by the doctor. After assessing your health condition (if the analysis shows that you are referred to a high risk group), the doctor will send you for a more detailed analysis to specialized medical departments. You will be provided with long term prevention recommendations.

For people of a very high risk group, a plan of lifestyle, treatment and its monitoring will be formed.

We implement national health prevention programs funded from the compulsory health insurance budget.

Prevention program	Age group	Goal	Tools
Cervical cancer prevention program	Women 25-60 years old	To decrease the women morbidity and mortality with cervical cancer, to detect early pre-malignant disease of the cervix and stop the opportunity for cervical cancer to develop	Once in 3 years, a cervical screening is performed. After the results, biopsy may be done to confirm or disprove the diagnosis objectively
Selective breast cancer screening program	Women 50-69 years old	To indicate whether there are changes in a breast, to detect pre-malignant breast changes or breast cancer as soon as possible. To decrease the women morbidity of cancer	Once in 2 years, mammography breast screening is performed. With a family doctor’s referral to perform the mammography screening, you may register in advance (by coming or by phone) at a medical institution that has mammography equipment. Family doctors inform about the results when they receive them from institutions where mammography is analyzed.
Funding program of bowel cancer early diagnostic	Persons 50-74 years old	To detect bowel cancer in early stages while treatment is still effective. To diagnose the disease is difficult as patients do not feel any symptoms of it for a long time, whereas to totally cure bowel cancer of a late stage (IV) is impossible	Once in 2 years, occult bleeding test is performed. If the answer is negative- patients are healthy, if positive- family doctors will refer patients to medical specialists. Colonoscopy or biopsy are ways to confirm the bowel cancer objectively
Funding program of prostate cancer early diagnostic	Men 50-69 years old; men from 45 years old if their parents or brothers had prostate cancer	To detect prostate cancer as soon as possible, because around 50 % of patients do not feel any symptoms	Once in 2 years, blood analysis is performed showing the concentration of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in blood. If PSA exceeds the norm, family doctors refer patients to consult urologists, they perform prostate cancer biopsy if in need
Funding program of selection and prevention programs for persons referred to a high risk cardiovascular disease groups	Men 40-55 and women 50-65 years old	To decrease cardiovascular morbidity (angina pectoris, heart attack, cerebral ischemia, stroke, peripheral arterial thrombosis). To select the sick with diabetes or atherosclerosis that do not feel any health disorders, in order to stop the development of these diseases	Once a year, family doctors indicate risk factors and form individual cardiovascular prevention plan, if necessary. If doctors indicate that the possibility of cardiovascular diseases is big, they send patients to specialized centers for detailed analysis, and the treatment is set, if necessary. It is important to know that once a year glucoses, cholesterol, triglycerides concentration in blood analysis, ECG and other analysis can be performed free-of-charge to show whether patients belong to a high risk group