Estimated national spending on prevention--United States, 1988.
Despite the overall health improvements achieved through preventive interventions, the United States continues to be burdened by preventable illness, injury, and disability (1). For example, annual health-care expenditures for cardiovascular disease alone exceed $135 billion and injury and disability, $170 billion (1). This report summarizes the findings of a study to estimate national funding for health promotion and disease prevention in the United States during 1988 (2).
D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States