The Importance Of Preventive Care

Preventive health care involves a wide range of interventions which help for maintaining good health habits, reducing the incidence of disease and disability, and slowing the progress of illnesses. These interventions can include providing childhood immunizations, raising taxes on cigarettes,

To promote better health the US department of health developed Healthy People 2020 with objectives to promoting healthy lives. Their goals are for people to live a long healthy life and remove disparities (Health People 2020, 2015). There are three levels of health promotion prevention: primary, secondary, and tertiary (Edelman & Mandle, 2014). Primary relates to preventing disease before it begins. Actions such as receiving an annual flu shot to prevent getting the flu, or eating healthy to prevent heart disease and weight control are included in primary prevention. Secondary prevention involves catching diseases early through screening. Some facilities will offer lung cancer screenings to catch the disease early to prevent worse outcomes. The third is tertiary which involves maintaining the best level of health possible with the disease or disability currently affecting a person. All three of these certainly

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a radical healthcare reform that aims to provide affordable, quality healthcare for all US citizens. This increased scope of coverage would allow millions more of Americans to use the system. In order to drive down costs from many more individuals, the ACA has planned to increase incentives for preventative public health interventions including primary care physicians. Although this is a fine beginning, I believe the greatest challenge to the long-term success of this reform remains the shift in mindset from a focus in treatment to an equal focus in prevention. Preventative services are vital to a healthcare system. However, the effects of prevention are often long term, and thus are traditionally underappreciated by those who have the disease being prevented. Individuals with the disease also undervalue prevention, as it does not affect their health state. With this mindset, prevention is undermined and will continue to be a challenge for the progression of the ACA.

In united states, 45% of all citizens have at least one chronic disease (4) and there is growing evidence that as a person age, he is more prone to develop other chronic condition if he is suffering from one (5). According to cdc, Heart diseases, diabetes, stroke, obesity, cancer and arthritis are the most prevalent yet preventable chronic conditions leading to hospitalizations, disabilities and decreased quality of life (6).

Overall healthcare quality has been improve the overall health of the population under these insurance plans candidates receive free preventative care. With many preventative treatments available it’s essential for healthcare field to shift from treating chronic disease to taking preventative measures beforehand. These programs has been able to improve the financial status of the Medicaid and Medicare programs by creating awareness among enrollees of the importance of preventive health and reduce the impact of obesity.

The National Prevention Strategy aim is to increase the number of Americans to live healthy in every stage of their life (CDC, 2014). It provides leadership at the federal level that emphasize on prevention, wellness, and health promotion and its landmark represented in a vision, goals, strategic direction, priorities, recommendation, and act. The National preventive strategy supports the Affordable Care Act, as both of them emphasize on the importance of prevention for all Americans.

The barriers to receiving effective public health treatment are nothing short of intimidating. Many people in the United States could die if they do not receive adequate public health that take care of their diseases. The government need to create available programs to deal with the increase of diseases and with the aging U.S. population. Invasive and debatable actions sometimes are needed it to find the causes of some diseases.

Although preventative care is of great importance to individuals and their community, it remains underutilized in the Plain Community when compared to the general population. By focusing on the prevention of disease and illness, community members can live longer and more

In our first week of class, we have looked at the first three chapters in, Health Care Delivery in the United States. The first chapter talks about how the health care system has moved from a mindset of restoring a person’s health, into the phase of preventative medicine, which we see now. This has resulted from measurement of how the health care system is working, and with research looking at patients throughout the years. We now know, that any problem, disease, or condition, should be treated early or prevented if possible. The health care system has been working with public education to make citizens aware of what tests and preventative programs will be of assistance to them. (Knickman & Kovner, A., 2015).

Before the health care reform, the common approach of care was writing prescriptions and performing procedures after a patient was already ill rather than focusing on preventing a patient from becoming ill or contracting debilitating and/or life threatening diseases and other illnesses. Going forward, times are changing and the insurance companies are now rewarding patients for being healthy with added benefits to promote health and wellness. The affordable care act has shifted the national approach of health care to prevention, early detection and safety as well as disease management. This shift of focus is a

If you think health care is not imperative, try knowing that you cannot go to a doctor because you could not afford it financially and that if there is something wrong, it may cause your severe disability or your death because you could not get treatment. Heck, you could not even take advantage of early preventive care programs. Even many who do have insurance will go bankrupt because the insurance companies think only of their "bottom lines," if it flatlines the people.

Overall, the Clinical Preventative Service has improved. This is due to increased education of the people, which makes them more aware of what helps and what hurts; what they can do or improve their health. By healthcare workers providing information and encouragement, people will learn how to take care of themselves better.

fourths of that spent directed at treating chronic diseases in 2006 (Goetzel, 2009). Poor health habits are a contributing factor to chronic diseases, which could be decreased if health habits are improved. Overall, the United States should spend more money on preventative care that would decrease chronic diseases and illnesses. Therefore, the cost of treating chronic illnesses would decrease. As important as managing national spending and funding is, the most important factor is the overall health of Americans. Providing preventative care that varies between racial and ethnic groups does not create a healthier society, but a society with more chronic illness and higher medical bills for its citizens.

There is a big problem in the United States when it comes to money being spent on preventable diseases. Why is this the case? Here are a few ideas. For one, America has become a place where everything is immediate. People are able to get food, music, information, and more in little to no time, and now this is what Americans want for their health problems as well. Instead of people taking care of themselves in order to prevent disease, they wait until they are sick and go to the doctor for instant gratification or a “quick fix”, like a pill. This leads to another point; Americans are becoming lazy. People do not want to take their health seriously, and end up causing more problems for themselves, and the country, in the long run. Finally, this

Medical prevention basically refers to action taken to prevent diseases, instead of curing it or treating the symptoms that occur. We live in a society where we believe medical measures are rather more effective than any other method of prevention. We trust the medical approach of preventing illness because doctors these days emphasizes the risk if something is not done to prevent illness. For instance, when it comes to heart problems, it is a norm for the affected individual to perform bypass operation. Another example would be the rates of cesarean sections are increasing the country compared to the rate of normal delivery. This is closely linked to the fact that people want lead a healthy lifestyle thinking medical prevention gives them that