Cost-effective: Treating diabetes or cancer is far more expensive than preventing them through regular screening, healthy diets, and awareness.
Saves national healthcare expenditure and reduces the burden on tertiary care hospitals.
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Prevention is not just better it’s cheaper. Treating chronic illnesses like diabetes or cancer is significantly more expensive than preventing them through regular screening, health dietary habits, public awareness and education.
Yes, India should prioritize preventive healthcare over curative care. By focusing on prevention, the country can reduce the burden of chronic diseases, lower healthcare costs, and improve overall public health. Preventive measures such as vaccination, health education, regular screenings, and lifestyle changes can prevent many diseases from developing in the first place, leading to better health outcomes and less strain on the healthcare system. Additionally, preventive care tends to be more cost-effective than treating diseases after they occur.
Yes, India should increase its focus on preventive healthcare, but without neglecting curative care.However, India must balance prevention with strong curative systems because not all illnesses are preventable, and treatment infrastructure still needs vast improvement.
As the saying goes, prevention is indeed better than cure. It is often preferable to take innovative steps to prevent a problem from arising in the first place, rather than seeking treatment after a diagnosis.
Definitely agree that preventive healthcare is the smarter and more cost-effective approach. But the reality is present-day India still isn’t giving enough importance to awareness and prevention measures. Most people only go to hospitals when things get serious. There’s a huge gap in health education, regular screenings, and early lifestyle interventions, especially in rural areas. If we truly want to reduce the burden on hospitals, we need to start from the roots with awareness, accessibility, and consistent preventive efforts.
Yes, focusing more on preventive healthcare can reduce disease burden, lower costs, and improve overall public health in the long run. Prevention is better than cure.
Preventing diseases like diabetes or cancer is not only better for our health but also much cheaper. Regular screenings, healthy food, exercise, and awareness can stop many diseases before they even start. This saves a lot of money for individuals and for the country. It also reduces the pressure on big hospitals, so they can focus more on serious and unavoidable cases.
Absolutely. Preventive healthcare will not only serve protection towards an individual, but it can save an entire family from future emotional and financial disintegration. Besides, early detection of a serious illness can result in less livelihood loss and most importantly lowered rates of burnout in caregivers and this one is very significant because in our country, families are the primary and strongest support systems. Preventive care will also strengthen the trust of people towards our healthcare system, as people will start to witness health from a zone of empowerment and restoration rather than fearing about it when things go wrong (part of curative healthcare). In today’s time it is for important for the communities to witness healthcare as a simple and regular practice and not viewing it as something we stick to in the form of a last resort. Because, when this shift will happen, it will engage more people with healthcare and they will adhere to the health practices also by building improved habits. Overall I feel it will help in rewiring the value of health itself inside everyone’s head with a comprehensive awareness.
Yes i agree with you prevention is better than cure by performing regular screening, healthy diets and awareness.
Definitely yes.