Investing in Health and Wellbeing
When Prevention is Better than Cure
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 October 2024
- ISBN 9780198887133
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 215x137x15 mm
- Weight 378 g
- Language English 546
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Short description:
Investing in Health and Wellbeing: When Prevention is Better than Cure, Second Edition provides a framework to investigate health promotion and protection, illustrating the principles with practical examples.
MoreLong description:
The proverbial benefits of prevention over cure are self-evident and yet we are reluctant to invest in protecting and improving our health. Resolution of this age-old dilemma begins with a timeless truth: the benefits of good health come at a cost; prevention is not better than cure at any price.
Protecting health should be appealing when a high-risk, high-value hazard can be averted rapidly, with certainty, and at relatively low cost. Similar reasoning applies when the goal is to make health gains, not merely to avoid health losses. Health choices are rational, based on values that are personal.
Investing in Health and Wellbeing: When Prevention Is Better than Cure, Second Edition provides a framework to promote and protect health as an asset, illustrating the principles with practical examples. Application of these ideas helps to explain why prevention is a low priority for health services, why the world was not ready for the COVID-19 pandemic, why deadly infections like tuberculosis are neglected, why cigarette smoking is still commonplace, why billions still do not have access to safe sanitation, and why the response to climate change has been so slow. Much more money and effort are invested in health promotion and disease prevention today than is commonly thought, but the enormous avoidable burden of illness is reason to look for ways of investing still more. Previously published as The Great Health Dilemma (ISBN: 9780198853824) in 2021, this second, updated edition makes prevention part of a broader vision for better health.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Review from previous edition I strongly recommend The Great Health Dilemma not only to teachers and students of public health but to anyone who is interested in their own health, their children's health and the health of the planet.
Table of Contents:
History: the art is long
Principles: the wisdom of foresight
Preventive care: an affordable dream?
Epidemics: unlikely disasters
Endemic infections: normal ways to die
Chronic diseases: the burden of choice
Sanitation: the culture of conveniences
Climate change: a healthy price for carbon
Future positive: the conditions for health
