01-06-2013 | Spectrum
Why we invest in health care and prevention
Abstract
Auteur:
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Gepubliceerd in:
TSG - Tijdschrift voor gezondheidswetenschappen
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Uitgave 6/2013
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Extract
The goal of prevention and health care is to improve health. Or, in other words: the goal of the health care system is to protect or promote health, prevent or cure diseases, and to improve the quality of life of the chronically ill. Health as the key value of the health care system sounds logical, and it is logical. When reading a newspaper or policy papers, however, it becomes clear that the health care system serves many more purposes. Prevention, for example, is expected to to reduce the health care costs . …