Prevention vs. Treatment: What's the Right Balance?

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2011-11-14
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0199837376
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Everyone knows the old adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," but we seem not to live by it. In the Western world's health care it is commonly observed that prevention is underfunded while treatment attracts greater overall priority. This book explores this observation by examining the actual spending on prevention, the history of health policies and structural features that affect prevention's apparent relative lack of emphasis, the values that may justify priority for treatment or for prevention, and the religious and cultural traditions that have shaped the moral relationship between these two types of care.

Economists, scholars of public health and preventive medicine, philosophers, lawyers, and religious ethicists contribute specific sophisticated discussions. Their descriptions and claims lean in various directions and are often surprising. For example, the imbalance between prevention and treatment may not be as great as is often thought, and we may b Download Prevention vs. Treatment for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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