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Introduction Cancer cases are rising globally, with a noticeable rise in younger adults. Screening and early detection are effective in decreasing mortality. Workplaces can play a role in promoting cancer screening uptake. This systematic review investigated the effectiveness of workplace breast, lung, colorectal, and cervical cancer screening interventions, and the factors impacting their effectiveness. Methodology Six databases (Embase, Medline, Web of Science, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Scopus) were searched, and cancer screening promotion and cancer screening uptake was analysed using effect direction plots. Magnitude of effectiveness (i.e., change in knowledge or screening rate) was also evaluated. Results In total, 13,426 articles were identified. After screening and applying the eligibility criteria, 21 articles were included in the analysis. A positive effect direction was seen for all workplace cancer screening promotion interventions. Magnitude of effectiveness for cancer screening promotion interventions resulted in a > 30% change in knowledge or screening uptake in 4/7 of breast cancer, in 3/4 of cervical cancer and 1/3 colorectal cancer screening promotion interventions. For workplace cancer screening uptake interventions, a positive effect direction was observed for the majority (18/22). Cancer screening uptake interventions showed a > 30% change in magnitude of screening rate in 4/7 breast cancer, 5/10 colorectal cancer and in 1/5 cervical cancer workplace interventions. No studies for lung cancer were eligible. Factors positively influencing effectiveness included an interest in health and previous healthcare use, while fear of cancer and embarrassment of screening negatively influenced effectiveness. Conclusion Workplace cancer screening promotion and uptake interventions can effectively improve cancer screening knowledge and increase uptake of screening tests.

BackgroundWith the influx of data, researchers, public health specialists and policymakers have been able to monitor disease trends and evaluate health services worldwide. However, in the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, the current circumstances around data availability and related issues are not widely discussed.ObjectivesThis study will review and compare the availability, accessibility and ownership of nationally representative individual-level quantitative health-related datasets in the ASEAN countries. Moreover, the author affiliation patterns of the first, last and corresponding authors of relevant articles will also be reviewed.MethodologyA scoping review will be conducted via a literature review and a website search. Relevant literature will be identified through the PubMed search engine and screened using the Covidence software. The websites of governmental and international organisations, as well as institutional data repositories, will be screened. The data extraction will be carried out in a pre-structured framework in an Excel sheet. The extracted data will be analysed using a content analysis approach. The review protocol was registered on Open Science Framework with registration Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/4T8AK.Ethical considerationAs this review will only collect data from published literature, no ethical approval is required.Dissemination planThe findings will be published in an international journal and be disseminated at public health conferences and workshops.Duration of the studyAugust 2024 to April 2025.

According to clause 7.2.1.5, it is essential that a laboratory that follows the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 standard verifies standard methods or validated alternative methods before it starts using them. In 2021, the International Standard Organization published the ISO 16140-3:2021 standard. This standard provides guidelines for verification of reference methods and validated alternative methods in a single food microbiology laboratory. By using the guidelines provided in the standard, we performed the method verification of Compact Dry BC, a ready-to-use media for quantification of Bacillus cereus in foods or raw materials. This Compact Dry BC method was validated by MicroVal according to the ISO 16140-2:2016 standard and revealed to be at least equivalent to the reference method “ISO 7932: 2004—Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs—Horizontal method for the enumeration of presumptive Bacillus cereus —Colony count technique at 30 °C”. For implementation verification, the laboratory selected dried infant formula samples, while for food item verification, the laboratory chose dried infant formula, canned fish, breakfast cereal, sliced meat and pie samples. Intralaboratory reproducibility standard deviation ( S IR ) obtained by the laboratory was 0.055 log 10 CFU, while the acceptable S IR is ≤ 0.341 log 10 CFU. Estimated bias (eBias) for dried infant formula, canned fish, breakfast cereal, sliced meat and pie samples were also found to be ≤ 0.5 log 10 CFU for low, medium, and high inoculum levels. Therefore, as per the criteria set by the ISO 16140-3:2021 standard, the Compact Dry BC method is suitable to use in our laboratory for enumeration of presumptive B. cereus in a broad range of food.