Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The first symptom if a heart attack in 50% of first time cases is DEATH.

Many in our country want our attention in health care to move toward  health promotion and disease prevention.

Health promotion is about teaching people to utilize what they have at hand to stay healthy. Avoiding know disease agents, like guns, smoking, over weight and unprotected sex. Education can only go so far though. In the end health promotion becomes an individual choice, many time driven by socioeconomic constraints.

Disease prevention is about early detection; screenings, annual exams and the active search for early markers of disease. Typically many of these medical disease preventions begin at 50 years of age. Family history of disease is enough reason to push your doctor into earlier screenings if you're under 50.

Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released a public opinion survey that finds that 71 percent of Americans favor an increased investment in disease prevention and that disease prevention is one of the most popular components of health reform.  Forty-four percent of Americans strongly favor investing more in prevention.


http://healthyamericans.org/report/70/prevention-survey-II

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