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  • Health screening

    • Medical Service
    • Medical Rehabilitation Therapy Services
    • Industrial Health Services
    • Health screening
    These services are designed to promote the physical well-being of the workers, prevent diseases, and provide comfortable working environments. The services in this category include health screening services for local residents provided by health care centers, special health screening, health care agency services, and occupational environment measurement services.

    Health screenings by the NHIS

    The purpose of health screenings by the NHIS is to prevent diseases through preemptive identification of the risks before the diseases occur and provision of health care supervision or follow-up medical care.

    • General health screening: Insured employees and individually insured persons are required to take health screenings every year or every two years, depending on their eligibility.
    • Health screening at transition points: insured persons aged 40 or 66
    • Screening for five most common cancers: stomach cancer, intestinal cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer, and uterine cancer
     

    Health screening for students

    - Elementary students (grades 1 through 4), middle school students (grade 1), and high school students (grade 1)

     

    Preemployment physical screening

    - Conducted for new recruits at government offices and private companies before employment

     

    Health screening for the retired(pneumoconiosis)

    - Conducted every year for persons with health management pocketbook

     

    Comprehensive health screening

    - Health screening tailored to different needs of workplaces and individuals across genders and ages, in order to prevent diseases by identifying them at the early stage

     

    Other health screenings

    - Driving aptitude test, health screening for government employees, health screening for sailors, physical screening for visa issuance, physical screening for firearms/blade permit, and other physical screenings for medical license, medical technician license, nutritionist license, and taxi license