The future of disease prevention.
The success of curative medical strategies calls attention to a lack in the completeness of health care: disease prevention. Bringing prevention appropriately into health care requires five types of effort: 1) broadening the view of health beyond the medical model to include the environment, social services, and personal health habits; 2) improving the science of prevention; 3) institutionalizing preventive services by relating them to all the participants, from the professionals to the government to the payers to the public; 4) encouraging non-physician health professionals to assume their suitable, possibly majority, share of providing preventive services; and 5) emphasizing preventive services notwithstanding an unevenness of access to them.
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D005544:Forecasting; D006287:Health Planning Guidelines; D006801:Humans; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000639:trends*; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services