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

#“prevention #cure” #diseases #measures
Productive citizens give lots of benefits to their country. To support
this
, every country allocated
health
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a health
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budget
 for their citizens. There are two ways in which
this
this
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budget
 can be allocated:
Illness
prevention
 and
Illness
treatment
. In
this
essay
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 I will explain why
health
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the health
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budget
 should be spent on
treatment
instead
 of
prevention
. Funding
on
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for
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illness
treatment
 provides more benefits.
To begin
 with, not all
disease
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diseases
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 can be
pr evented
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prevented
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, but most of them can be cured. Cancer,
for example
, is known to be undetectable until it has grown.
Cancer
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A cancer
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 cell is a parasite that can be found in most parts of your body, but it is not dangerous until it is activated. To
this
 day, we do not have any knowledge of what
activate
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 it.
Secondly
, some
diseases
 are a result of an unexpected event.
For instance
,
car
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a car
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 accident can make a person with a very healthy lifestyle
to
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have
severe
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a severe
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illness
.
On the other hand
, many
people
 believe that preventative measures are useless due to a lot of reasons.
Firstly
, some unhealthy habits are hard to quit. Even
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though
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tough
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though
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 cigarette box has a picture of
diseases
 caused by smoking;
people
 keep on doing it anyway. Another example is the increase
of
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in
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 fast-food consumption despite the healthy diet campaign.
Furthermore
, money spent on preventative measures
are
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is
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 not as targeted
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as that
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that
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apply
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of
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on
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treatment
.
Budget
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The budget
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 on
illness
treatment
 will only be spent when
people
 are ill, while
budget
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the budget
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 spent on
prevention
 may result in
people
 having the
diseases
 that were prevented anyway. In conclusion, despite the high cost of treating
diseases
, I strongly believe that the money spent
for
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on
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illness
treatment
 is
a
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apply
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better
use
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used
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 than for
prevention
.
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Include an introduction and conclusion

A conclusion is essential for IELTS writing task 2. It is more important than most people realise. You will be penalised for missing a conclusion in your IELTS essay.

The easiest paragraph to write in an essay is the conclusion paragraph. This is because the paragraph mostly contains information that has already been presented in the essay – it is just the repetition of some information written in the introduction paragraph and supporting paragraphs.

The conclusion paragraph only has 3 sentences:

  • Summary
  • Restatement of thesis
  • Prediction or recommendation

Example:

To summarize, a robotic teacher does not have the necessary disciple to properly give instructions to students and actually works to retard the ability of a student to comprehend new lessons. Therefore, it is clear that the idea of running a classroom completely by a machine cannot be supported. After thorough analysis on this subject, it is predicted that the adverse effects of the debate over technology-driven teaching will always be greater than the positive effects, and because of this, classroom teachers will never be substituted for technology.

Start your conclusion with a linking phrase. Here are some examples:

  • In conclusion
  • To conclude
  • To summarize
  • Finally
  • In a nutshell
  • In general

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