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Prevention vs. treatment : what's the right balance? / edited by Halley S. Faust and Paul T. Menzel.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Preventive--United States.
- Medicine, Preventive.
- Preventive health services--United States.
- Preventive health services.
- Evidence-based medicine--United States.
- Evidence-based medicine.
- Therapeutics.
- Medicine--Religious aspects.
- Medicine.
- Health promotion.
- Preventive Health Services.
- Primary Prevention.
- Evidence-Based Medicine.
- Religion and Medicine.
- Health Promotion.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Preventive Health Services.
- Therapeutics.
- Primary Prevention.
- Evidence-Based Medicine.
- Religion and Medicine.
- Health Promotion.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 397 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Prevention versus treatment
- What's the right balance?
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Apha Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Everyone knows the old adage, ""an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,"" but we seem not to live by it. In the Western world's health care it is commonly observed that prevention is underfunded while treatment attracts greater overall priority. This book explores this observation by examining the actual spending on prevention, the history of health policies and structural features that affect prevention's apparent relative lack of emphasis, the values that may justify priority for treatment or for prevention, and the religious and cultural traditions that have shaped the moral relati
- Contents:
- Introduction
- What is currently spent on prevention as compared to treatment? / George Miller [and others]
- Prevention vs. cure: an economist's perspective on the right balance / Louise B. Russell
- The evidence base for clinical prevention : an incomplete story / Robert B. Wallace
- Prevention and the science and politics of evidence / Diana B. Petitti
- Historical prespectives on structural barriers to prevention / Halley S. Faust
- Our alleviation bias : why do we value alleviating harm more than preventing harm? / Halley S. Faust
- Treatment and prevention : what do we owe each other?/ Norman Daniels
- The variable value of life and fairness to the already ill : two promising but tenuous arguments for treatment's priority / Paul T. Menzel
- The slow transition of U.S. law toward a greater emphasis on prevention / Thaddeus Mason Pope
- Should the value of future health benefits be time-discounted? / Paul T. Menzel
- Prevention vs. treatment: how do we allocate scare resources from Jewish ethical perspectives? / Alan Jotkowitz and Shimon Glick
- Cure vs. prevention : Catholic perspectives / Nuala Kenny
- Loving God and the neighbor : Protestant insights for prevention and treatment / Aana Marie Vigen
- Apocalypse and health: treatment and prevention in the Seventh-day Adventist tradition / Roy Branson
- Prevention vs. treatment in Hong Kong : constrained utilitarianism with a Chinese character / Ho Mun Chan.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-020838-4
- 1-283-42749-4
- 9786613427496
- 0-19-983738-4
- OCLC:
- 774276170
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