Out of a country's health budget, a large proportion should be diverted from treatment

to spending on health education and preventative measure.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

there is a statement that “Out of a country’s health budget, a large proportion should be diverted
from treatment to spending on health education and preventative measure”. I absolutelly agree
with that statement.

Firstly, the cost for prevention is much less than cure. To prevent, we just spend a little money for
vaccine or some other kinds of preventative drugs. Meanwhile, to cure, especially with some
serious diseases such as cancer, we need a lot of money as well as time and sometime it is in
vain.

Secondly, prevention is very simple. Beside injecting vacine, we only need to ensure personal
hygiene like washing your hands whenever you think it is “dirty” or taking a shower everyday.
Small actions can make huge effects. Just with those simple actions, we do make a strong barrier
against disease.

Contract to the simple of prevention is the complication of cure. Some infectious diseases could
spread very fastly such as SARS or H1N1. It is very costly and takes time to stamp them out.
Some diseases once we are infected, there will be no way to cure such as HIV/AIDS.

Finally, the benefits of prevention is uncouterble. If we have preventative measures and a good
health education, we can avoid the pandemics that can cause infecting to thousands of people,
bring about burdens for familys and sociaty.

In conclusion, with those bright sights of prevention, we can sure that prevention is always better
than cure. Therefore, we should divert a large proportion from treatment to spending on health
education and preventative measure.

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE

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Outlines : It is an old saying which holds true in daily life. Tt means that we
should prevent a disease by observing a simple rule of ‘hygiene instead of
later on letting the disease spread and require loti of efforts for its cure.
Prevention is always better than cure because i,t nips the trouble in the bud.
This principle is highly useful in daily life and can save a lot of botheration
vvhich.woukl , otherwise have to be faced. ‘A stitch in time saves nine’ is
another saying which means more or less the same thing.
Essay :
‘Prevention is better tnan cure” is a wise saying which ha^ comedown to us
since ages. It holds true for ever. The wisdom of the saying lies in the fact that
a little effort in the early pha^ of a problem helps to solve it before it becomes
too difficult to be solved. This principle is always observed by wise people to
succeed in life. Those who do not observe this principle usually suffer even if
they are intelligent and hard-working. Observance of this principle becomes a
part of one’s nature ; indifference to this principle also becomes a bad habit
leading to uneasy consequences.
If one sees symptoms of a disease, it is advisible to immediately go to the
doctor, get it diagnosed and follow the treatment. Any negligence at the
earlier stages of a disease leads to complications and deterioration. Going to
the doctor at a late stage will not only mean more expense but may also
endanger the life of the person. Prevention is, therefore, better than cure.
Unclean state of affairs in one’s household can lead to many diseases. The
members of one’s family can catch malaria or any other disease owing to the
mosquitoes that multiply in an unclean place. Stagnant water, dirty latrines,
unclean floors and dirty and stale food, over-ripe fruits and the like can cause
so many diseases whose cure will cost a lot of botheration and money. It is
better to remove all these unclean habits and prevent the occurrence of the
disease. Prevention is better than cure again.
If one is a student, it is better to study regularly. If one ignores one’s lessons
in the early stages so as to work hard during the examination days, one is in
for trouble. One’s early carelessness can cost one success in the
examination. One should study tiie lessons regularly in keeping with the
requirements of the class, under instructions of the teacher, if one wants to
fare well in the examination. One should prevent failure than face the failure
and try hard to overcome it. One may have to hire a costly tutor or lose one’s
health—physical and mental—to recoup the lost time. Prevention is better
than cure again.
The principle also holds good in the matter of building good habits. If a person
wants to develop good habits» he must lay a sound foundation for them. To
keep to the morals and principles of good character, it is desirable to avoid
bad habits of drinking, smoking, etc. Once” one starts on the wrong lines,
there is no end to the dirty ways. It is always better to avoid dirty habits from
early childhood. We should nip the evil in the bud from the very beginning

Essay topic:

"Prevention is better than cure."

Out of country's health budget, a large proportion should be diverted from treatment to
spending on health education and preventive measures.
Nowadays in every country especially in developed countries
governments try to increase the health level of their society. They
know better if the health of population decline it causes further
problems, and an unhealthy society has low efficiency and low
productivity which leads to backwardness and low growth.

This clearly indicates the importance of this issue and the community
health level must be a high priority for all governments, therefore, to
fulfill this aim every government assigns a certain health budget. Now
the question is how this health budget must be spent and is just
addressing treatment or making hospitals enough? Regarding to this
question I must say, certainly it is not enough, Addressing treatment
and making hospital is necessary but not enough. In addition to this, I
strongly believe significant amount of health budget in every country
ought to be allocated to health education and prevention. This issue
will be discussed further in following.

We all know that these days treatment cost is staggering, even there
are lots of people who cannot afford it’s cost, while in lots of cases by
spending much lesser amount we can prevent needs of people for
treatment, to achieve this goal there are different approaches such as
educating people from early ages. We can teach them how to live a
healthy life, or how having daily exercise and healthy diet can prevent
lots of diseases on senescence. Another example regarding to
prevention is spending money on such advertisements that shows
people what would happen if they had unhealthy habits such as
smoking.

In conclusion, I totally agree with the idea of allocating significant

amount of health budget to prevention and health education and i
believe it is a very useful measure to enhance the health level of
community.
"Prevention is better than cure."Out of our country's health budget, a
large proportion should be diverted from treatment to spend on health
education and preventative measures. To what extent do you agree or
disagree with this statement?
Being healthy is critical for all human’s wellbeing. Some people advocate devoting
more of a nation’s health budget to prevention while others think that it is well spent
on treatment and research into curing diseases. In my opinion there are limitations
to what prevention can achieve to keep people healthy and i would therefore argue
that treatment should not be neglected.
To begin, humans do not always act rational, even if they are well informed and
educated about the consequences of their actions. Maybe they can not find the time
to exercise even if they know it would be beneficial for their health. Another example
is people continue to smoke despite being aware of the adverse effect on their health.
Another point is that not every illness can be prevented. People get hurt in accidents
or infected by others. There are also diseases that are inherited in some families. In
these cases prevention is irrelevant or can only help with early diagnostics.
Lastly, in the last two centuries major advancements in medical research were made.
Cures were developed for the majority of severe diseases. If the budget for treatment
and medical research was cut back to allow for more prevention, we can not keep the
same pace of progress.
All things considered, health is too important to neglect any measure to stay and
become healthy. We can only overcome diseases with a bundle of measures:
prevention, testing, immunization, treatment and research. Prevention is a useful
weapon in this battle but not the only one.
" Prevention is better than cure" , Out of a country's health
budget, a large proportion should be diverted from treatment to
spending on health education and preventative measures. To
what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Nowadays, people get much serious diseases although the health

services develop much than in the past. The government
considers to spending the sum of money on health education and
preventative measures. In my opinion, I agree that the
government should spend a large proportion of the country's
health budget on prevention because this can improve people's
health and reduce the overcrowding of some hospitals.
First of all, If the government spends a large proportion of the
country's health budget on health education and preventative
measures, people's health will be improved. The government can
introduce some health education health programmes that make
citizens more aware of some diseases, how to prevent them. If
the citizens have knowledge about some infectious diseases like
zoonosis, pneumonia, leprosy, scabies, common cold... or some
common diseases like influenza, flu ... they can avoid them. With
some serious diseases like cancer, parkinsons, infantile paralysis,
malaria ... people can understood about them that helps prevent
not to spread widely or find out the best treatment method which
saves so many lives. In addition, the government can spend
money on producing vaccine free for citizens. This enables to
prevent people from get some diseases.
Second, by the implementation of the government's policies, the
overcrowding of some hospitals will reduce. The decrease of the
patients let the health care services better. Because, instead of
four patients in a bed, there is a patient in a bed that helps the
patient can feel comfortable and quickly recover the health. The
patient can use the equipments when they need instantly instead
of sharing it with others. Moreover, doctors and nurses will not be
stressful and over load. They only concern on a patient that
brings the best treatment result.
In contrast, some thinks that spending a large proportion of the
country's health budget on health education and preventative
measures by government is unrealistic. I see this view and I
partly agree with this. Because prevention is permissible only in
well understood and controllable conditions, not cure the disease
totally. However, the prevention at least reduces the danger level,
the pain and saves money and time. You will sit in the better
health.
To sum up, If the government spend a large proportion of the
country's health budget on prevention, this will brings a lot of
benefits. People will have a chance to widen their knowledge
about some diseases, how to avoid them or figure out the best
treatment method... As a result, the health will be improved.
Addingly, the overcrowding of some hospital will reduce that
helps people have a better health care service. There is no doubt
that spending on health education and preventative measures is
really important.

This proverb "Prevention is better than cure" advises us to be cautious and careful to detect and
root out the cause of a trouble before it overtakes us and gets aggravated. This proverb, on the
face of it, applies to physical health.

It is good to see a doctor when we are sick, but it would be still better not to fall sick at all by
taking precautionary and preventive measures, well in advance. If we are a little cautious at the
time of change of season, we may not fall sick. But if we are indifferent or negligent, the illness
may attack us and its cure may prove costly or, perhaps even impossible.

The truth contained in this proverb holds well in any sphere of life. Neglecting our studies
throughout the year and then studying with a nervous heart when exams are around the corner
indicates the truth in this proverb.

Thus, this proverb reminds us that most of our misfortunes can be avoided only if we see the
trouble and take a little trouble to ward it off as early as possible.

“A stich in time saves nine.” Prevention is always better than cure, if we know that something with
the passage of time might become dangerous then it better to take a precautionary step to
combat the danger.

So how many times you heard your parents and grandparents say this to you- take precaution
dear and don’t give your problems a chance to arrive. So better work now and take precaution
instead of fixing the damage later.
This phase is applicable in many fields of life:
If you are student then you should study every day, but generally all the confusion arises when
you study only during exam. When you ignore your study in the early stages then you end up
working hard during your examinations and risk your success. There is no need to gamble with
your success if you do your studies appropriately on time.

You should immediately go to a doctor and start your treatment, if there are certain visible
symptoms of a disease, before getting diagnosed with that disease. There have been many
cancer cases where the patient did not take his health seriously and later on with further
deterioration of his health, he comes to know that he is suffering from cancer and is at the
second or third stage.

Had he been to the doctor earlier and diagnosed with his disease then he could have been easily
cured in the first stage. Even in the case of other diseases early detection helps in taking better
preventive measures. Thinking that the disease will cure itself or avoiding doctor visit may result
in increase of the problem and expenses even endanger your life.

We can take precaution methods by choosing healthy diet and making it a point to exercise
regularly. Regular exercise and good nutritious food will make us less prone to diseases, and will
also result in a healthy heart, mind and body.

Preventive measures taken in work areas also lessen the intensity of suffering. For example if
you focus on the market you can save yourself from financial catastrophe by perceiving the
future losses. Preventive measure also helps in controlling population.

Wise man always use this formula for the success, they never wait for the deadline to come near
to start their work, instead they finish their work before deadline, this gives them time to solve
any unseen problem that might occur during the process of their work.

It is an old saying which holds true in daily life:

No man is perfect we all do mistakes. But with the help of act of Prevention one can avoid doing
many disasters, complexities, confusion and destruction. We can check ourselves from doing
something by thinking about the outcome (that can happen because of our negligence) first and
then take appropriate action.

Each and every action should be measured carefully because solving the problem will be more
time consuming and more painful compared to taking precaution so that the problem do not
happen.