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Preventive Healthcare and its Economic Implications

Economically speaking, health is our most valuable possession. Almost every country in the world has a publicly funded healthcare system designed with the aim of preserving and promoting human health. The common issues of healthcare systems around the world are limited resources, ensuring equitable resource allocation and the awareness that healthcare is very expensive, as evidenced by a growth in national health expenditures in almost all countries of the world. Rapidly increasing incidence and prevalence of chronic diseases imposes additional burden on healthcare systems and national economies. This implies inefficient use of public health services, increased costs associated with clinical treatment of diseases and the cost of lost productivity due to inability of work and absenteeism. In view of the above, the aim of this paper is to underline the importance of the development and implementation of preventive healthcare programs at the national level and to confirm that prevention is several times more cost-effective than clinical treatment.

Health ; Prevention ; Resource Scarcity ; Public Health System ; Efficiency

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