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Investing in health and wellbeing : when prevention is better than cure / Christopher Dye.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dye, Christopher, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Great health dilemma
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Preventive.
- Public health.
- Preventive health services.
- Health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- The proverbial benefits of prevention over cure are self-evident - and yet we are reluctant to invest in protecting and improving our health. When a high-risk, high-value hazard can be averted rapidly, with certainty and relatively low cost, protecting health should be more appealing. Similar reasoning applies when the goal is to enhance health and wellbeing, not merely to prevent illness. So why is prevention a low priority for health services? Why is the idea of 'sin tax' so misconceived? Why is cigarette smoking still so commonplace? This book provides a framework to investigate health promotion and protection, illustrating the principles with practical examples.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: published as The great health dilemma. 2021.
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 18, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780191994609
- 019199460X
- 9780198887140
- 0198887140
- OCLC:
- 1453869130
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