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The great health dilemma: is prevention better than cure?
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The proverbial benefits of prevention over cure are self-evident—and yet we are reluctant to invest in staying healthy. Resolution of this age-old dilemma begins with a timeless truth: the benefits of good health come at a cost: prevention is not better than cure at any price. That logic leads to a testable—and refutable—proposition: that prevention should be favoured when an imminent, high-risk, high-impact hazard can be averted at relatively low cost. Application of this idea helps to expla...
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- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Publication date:
- 2021-07-21
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- 0198853823
- ISBN-13:
- 9780198853824
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1180423
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- 2021-06-04
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