Prevention is better than cure. Researching and treating diseases is too costly so it would be better to invest in preventive measures. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Recently, governments all over the world started to put more effort
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preventive
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than
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one. I completely agree with these directives as it saves lives and
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less. Prophylaxis
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save more lives than curative
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.
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means that if governments focused on raising awareness of the public and added some education subjects to the students’ curriculum at schools about the health hazards of drinking, smoking, or eating fast food, there would be a significant decrease in death rates.
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comorbidities after adding
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students’ curriculum.
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, it is clear that
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of diseases is much more beneficial than curative methods.
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, the research to create a new medication to fight a certain disease costs too much money and the end results may be unsatisfactory. Recently, due to covid19 pandemic, most medical
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all over the world started their research in all directions to design a
vaccine
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or an effective treatment, but
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vaccine
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won because it is comparatively cheap and the results
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great.Even if the patient who got the
vaccine
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got infected, their symptoms were usually mild and did not need admission.
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of
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,
COVID19
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vaccine
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was not only cheaper, but
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decreased the need for hospitalization, and
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, decreased the financial burden on the health system.
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, preventive
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are more beneficial than curative methods. In conclusion, the merits of prophylaxis
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are much more important than curative ways as prophylaxis
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save more lives and cost less. It is recommended that all governments should concentrate on education and create vaccines rather than spending a huge amount of money on research to create a new medication.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • proactive
  • preventive measures
  • lifestyle diseases
  • public health
  • healthcare expenditure
  • cost-effective
  • chronic conditions
  • early detection
  • immunization
  • health promotion
  • risk factors
  • non-communicable diseases
  • disease surveillance
  • preventive diagnostics
  • health literacy
  • universal healthcare
  • primary prevention
  • secondary prevention
  • tertiary prevention
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