“Prevention is better than cure.” Out of a country’s health budget, a large proportion should be diverted from treatment to spending on health education and preventative measures. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement
Nowadays, more and more people are getting sick or dying due to some critical illness; there could be different scenarios either for no one have enough awareness about these diseases with prevention methods. In this essay, the author argues that from most counties’ health budgets, a large percentage of the amount is spent on health education and preventative methods. I agree with this point of view, and I will discuss this in the following paragraphs.
First of all, “prevention is better than cure”. This is only possible when everyone has enough knowledge about all types of illness and safety precaution. For illustration, a few decades ago, when malaria was introduced into the world. At that time, more than 80% of Italy people got infected because they didn’t have enough education about these diseases, and even they didn’t know how to protect themself from malaria. While within a short duration of time, other countries got infected too, but not Italy. Due to this reason, a number of people got died at that time.
On the other hand, the government must invest as much as possible in health education and preventive methods rather than treatment or treatment equipment because if people are aware of what is good or bad for their health, they always try to protect themself from it. For example, In Japan, most people live a long life because their government is spending plenty of money on health education. Moreover, from elementary school, they are teaching their pupils about health education and how to use precautions to stay safe with others.
To conclude, I believe that “health is wealth” If the government invests more money in health education, there is a good chance of reducing the hospital-patient ratio. And they can utilize that amount in the future work of their people.