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Making health care work for American families : the role of public health : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, March 31, 2009.
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Making health care work for American families : the role of public health : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, March 31, 2009.
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National Prevention Council action plan : implementing the National Prevention Strategy.
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National Prevention Council action plan : implementing the National Prevention Strategy.
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Health literacy in context : international perspectives
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ISBN: 9781619429352 1619429357 9781619429215 1619429217 Year: 2012 Publisher: Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,

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Advancing cancer education and healthy living in our communities : putting visions and innovations into action: selected papers from the St. Jude Cure4Kidsʼ Global Summit 2011
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ISBN: 1299333176 1614990883 9781614990888 9781614990871 1614990875 9781299333178 Year: 2012 Publisher: Amsterdam : IOS Press,

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Prevention and Public Health Fund : activities funded in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 : report to congressional requesters.
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Prevention and Public Health Fund : activities funded in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 : report to congressional requesters.
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An integrated framework for assessing the value of community-based prevention
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ISBN: 0309263549 0309263557 0309263573 Year: 2012 Publisher: Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press,

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"During the past century the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States have shifted from those related to communicable diseases to those due to chronic diseases. Just as the major causes of morbidity and mortality have changed, so too has the understanding of health and what makes people healthy or ill. Research has documented the importance of the social determinants of health (for example, socioeconomic status and education) that affect health directly as well as through their impact on other health determinants such as risk factors. Targeting interventions toward the conditions associated with today's challenges to living a healthy life requires an increased emphasis on the factors that affect the current cause of morbidity and mortality, factors such as the social determinants of health. Many community-based prevention interventions target such conditions. Community-based prevention interventions offer three distinct strengths. First, because the intervention is implemented population-wide it is inclusive and not dependent on access to a health care system. Second, by directing strategies at an entire population an intervention can reach individuals at all levels of risk. And finally, some lifestyle and behavioral risk factors are shaped by conditions not under an individual's control. For example, encouraging an individual to eat healthy food when none is accessible undermines the potential for successful behavioral change. Community-based prevention interventions can be designed to affect environmental and social conditions that are out of the reach of clinical services. Four foundations - the California Endowment, the de Beaumont Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - asked the Institute of Medicine to convene an expert committee to develop a framework for assessing the value of community-based, non-clinical prevention policies and wellness strategies, especially those targeting the prevention of long-term, chronic diseases. The charge to the committee was to define community-based, non-clinical prevention policy and wellness strategies; define the value for community-based, non-clinical prevention policies and wellness strategies; and analyze current frameworks used to assess the value of community-based, non-clinical prevention policies and wellness strategies, including the methodologies and measures used and the short- and long-term impacts of such prevention policy and wellness strategies on health care spending and public health. An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Value of Community-Based Prevention summarizes the committee's findings"--


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Prevention vs. Treatment : What's the Right Balance?
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ISBN: 9780199837373 0199837376 0199919496 9786613427496 1283427494 0199837384 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Oxford university press

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A standard practice in health economics that disadvantages prevention, "discounting" the value of future lives, may rest on weak empirical and moral grounds. And it is an "apocalyptic" religious tradition (Seventh-day Adventism) whose members have put some of the strongest and most effective priority on long-term prevention. Prevention vs. Treatment is distinctive in carefully clarifying the nature of the empirical and moral debates about the proper balance of prevention and treatment; the book pursues those debates from a wide range of perspectives, many not often heard from in health policy. 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 be spending excessively on many preventive measures just as we do on treatments compelled by the felt demands of rescue.

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