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The Refugee-For-Service Model

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Historically the United States has focused on the loose concept of prevention while the private sector focused on treatment. Prevention is to keep something from occurring while treatment occurs after the fact and can increase cost. There are three types of prevention- primary (averting occurrence), secondary (halting progress) and tertiary (limiting impact) that could result in reducing the need to provide costly treatment that could have been avoided (Williams & Torrens, 2008). In addition, the history of the health care system has not been supportive of preventative measures for chronic conditions but paid physicians on a fee-for-service model that did not progress the need for long-term preventable health metrics (Williams & Torres,

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