[Extent of preventive medicine services of the canton of Basel-town].

The results of an analysis of all preventive services in the canton of Basel-Town for 1974 show, that there were 110,000 preventive examinations delivered (i.e. 374 per 1000 adults). Practizing physicians provided 73%, cantonal services 23% and occupational health services 4% of those exams. For primary prevention, the relationship is inverse: the weight of cantonal services is in this domain. Costs for cantonal services amount to 1.4% of the cantonal outlays for health.