title: Is an ounce of prevention always worth a pound of cure? No: promoting prevention to contain costs is a logical fallacy.
authors.affiliation: hshenkin@pol.net
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shenkin
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000191:economics; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D011788:Quality of Life; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States