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Prevention and public health

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Preventing illness through healthy conditions and early action.

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Principles

  • Evaluate prevention by the illness and harm avoided relative to its costs and risks.
  • Use evidence to identify who benefits and avoid assuming every preventive measure saves money.

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Does every preventive health measure necessarily save money?
Yes; all prevention eliminates more costs than it creates.
No; benefits, risks, costs, and the people affected must be evaluated.
Yes; evidence of outcomes is unnecessary.

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