It is more important to spend public money promoting a healthy lifestyle in order to prevent illness than to spend it on the treatment of people who are already ill. To what extent do you agree of disagree?

Of course it goes without saying that prevention is better than cure.

That is

why, in recent years, there has been a growing body of opinion in favour of putting more resources into promoting a healthy lifestyle. I agree that by promoting a healthy lifestyle, there will be fewer people requiring treatment and

thus

the amount spent on curing ill

health

could be reduced substantially. As many modern diseases are a consequence of our lifestyles, one way of making savings to the

health

budget would be to educate people about how to prevent expensive

health

problems

such

as diabetes or heart disease. Most medical doctors today do not have the time to (nor are they paid for)

teach

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to teach

patients how to make these changes to their lifestyle through diet or exercise. The government can take the help of pervasive media

such

as TV and radio to educate people. It is understandable that when people are sick they want the best medical treatment possible, with access to the latest diagnostic equipment, expensive MRI scanners,

for example

. If the problem is life threatening

then

we demand complex operations

such

as open-heart surgery or organ transplants.

Such

procedures usually require intensive nursing care and lengthy periods of hospitalization, which are costly.

Furthermore

, there are many diseases which, if diagnosed early through proper screening tests can be treated very easily.

For example

, cancer of the cervix can be diagnosed with a very simple, inexpensive outdoor test called the pap smear. If the government spends a little amount to provide

such

screening tests free of

cast

the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor

cost

,

thenthen

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then then

a lot of money needed for expensive treatments could be saved later on. To put it in a nutshell, I pen down, saying that it would be definitely worthwhile to divert the

health

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The health

Health

budget towards prevention of diseases. By doing so the nation would be healthier and automatically the cost of treatment would cut down.