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Running head: PREVENTION OF DISEASES 1

PREVENTION OF DISEASES 3

Prevention of Diseases

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 Write an opinion for each part and provide reference

Part 1

Prevention, prevention, prevention is the key! If more focus were geared toward preventing chronic diseases, the cost of health care would be significantly decreased (CDC, 2017). Though this seems like a logical statement, the U.S. spends trillions of dollars on chronic diseases and less on preventative services. According to the Centers for Disease Control (2017) and Prevention, if health insurance companies eliminated charges for preventative services, it would entice more people to participate in them. In addition, education, vaccines, health care screenings would decrease the rising cost of health care across the board.

            The video titled “Health Care Spending in the United States” reminded listeners spending was down in 2012; though, not necessarily related to preventative care (Brookins Institution, 2015). While many were not in favor of the Affordable Care Act, it may have attributed to the decline in spending as health care systems were forced to focus on quality and not quantity of care (Brookins Institution, 2015). Prevention, better access to health care services, and attention to inequalities are all pertinent factors to decreasing health care spending.

            In my employment at Tampa General Hospital, leaders focus on well-care initiative for all employees. The company encourage, persuade, and engage workers in wellness programs for an affordable rate. Daily invites are sent to educate, train, and encourage the involvement for better health care. These types of programs are necessary to initiate pertinent changes in care. Treating is expensive, preventative is less costly overall and must be implemented for a better health care system.

 

References

Brookins Institutions. Health Care Spending in the United States. (2015, January 26). [YouTube Video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INyhVHwtTe4

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Preventative Health Care. (2017). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/toolstemplates/entertainmented/tips/PreventiveHealth.html

Part2

To what degree do you think that average person values and truly understands the importance of preventative care, and the role of living a healthy lifestyle in maintaining health and well being?  How important do you think it is for the public health sector to focus valuable resources on community  health / lifestyle education, and how do we get consumers to buy into this messaging?

Part 3

In my experience and with the research I have found, it is worth spending the money on preventive care. More focus on money should be placed on the development of preventive medicine. Preventive medicine, according to NCBI, is the absence of disease by preventing the disease, stopping the disease from spreading, or averting complications from the disease. It is practiced from either agencies, providers, or from the individual. According to the youtube video, healthcare spending has increased over the past 5 decades and if by 2040 our spending does not continue to lower, then the government will either have to increase our taxes or cut spending elsewhere to pay for it. The reasons spending more money on preventive medicine is important because once a illness forms within an individual's body, there are costs to get the illness under control, costs to heal the individual, costs for the individual to ensure the illness doesn't come back, and the future costs for the damage the illness has already done on the body that the individual needs to keep up with. Also, according to the CDC, health problems have resulted in 69 million workers reported missing work due to an illness which caused the economy to suffer a 260 billion dollar output per year. There are many reasons to why preventive medicine should have more government funding.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/toolstemplates/entertainmented/tips/PreventiveHealth.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2274388/

https://www.youtube.com/embed/INyhVHwtTe4?wmode=opaque&rel=0&cc_load_policy=1&cc_lang_pref=en