Annual report on screening for disease 2006

There used to be no clinics for multiphasic screening in the Netherlands and managers had to go the United States for a yearly check-up. Nowadays there are special health centres for women, men and the elderly, and there are screening centres and clinics for check-ups or total-body scans. Industry, insurance companies and alternative treatment centres add to the offer, and the number of tests freely available through the pharmacist, chemist and the internet are rising sharply. The amount of conditions for which there is a national screening programme is also increasing.