Comprehensive Evidence-based Health Maintenance

The potential of primary prevention to prevent, delay, or ameliorate disease is immense. However, the total spending on preventive services in the US remains astoundingly small and represents a meager 3.5% of total health care spending. Moreover, training focused on prevention in medical schools is often neglected, and time-constrained primary providers frequently omit effective preventive and early detection measures, or perform them perfunctorily. Indeed, preventable conditions of serious consequences including ‘premature’ mortality, cardiovascular events, and major organ failure are ubiquitous with the global obesity and diabetes epidemics, and the ongoing high prevalence of noxious habits and drug abuse.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Review Source Type: research