CherieAtwood Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 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? No poll?? Health education is prevention so it is always good!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CherieAtwood Posted May 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 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? No poll?? Health education is prevention so it is always good!! I dont want a beer option involved with this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 A lot depends of course on the quality of the education! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 It's very important in my opinion. As with most problems, you want to get to the root/source of the problem to solve it. Taking care of it after the fact doesn't do much for the long run. Teaching people how to properly wash, prepare, and store food is one thing that would really help Thailand (and many other countries). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nave Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 for sure Prevention is better than abortion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stramash Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 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? a very sensible post Ms Atwood; have you been drinking? Prevntion is always better than treatment/cure, no matter what aspect of health and well being you look at. Whether it be education on drugs, sex, healthy eating etc for young people, or whether prescribing of statins to over 50's (new policy in UK) to reduce likelihood of heart disease/attacks, the financial burden of these policies will always be less than the burden of treatment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakeGeneve Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 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? Sounds like an old high school exam question. One cannot generally disagree with basic premise of the statement at all. However, if your demographics are such that you have a large and increasing ageing population AND public health finances have limits - invariably there are never unlimited funds available for health. Then, I would not want to be the health minister implementing the policy change to decrease the treatment side of the budget with the obvious consequences that some may die sooner in order to expand the education and prevention side as an investment for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 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? Sounds like an old high school exam question. One cannot generally disagree with basic premise of the statement at all. However, if your demographics are such that you have a large and increasing ageing population AND public health finances have limits - invariably there are never unlimited funds available for health. Then, I would not want to be the health minister implementing the policy change to decrease the treatment side of the budget with the obvious consequences that some may die sooner in order to expand the education and prevention side as an investment for the future. LG has a point here! And I dont want to give something important as health to some politicians, better do like Dr Sathit, he does a lot of prevention with all his small groups all over Thailand coming together regularly to do some gymnastics and talk about healthy food Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CherieAtwood Posted May 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 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? Sounds like an old high school exam question. One cannot generally disagree with basic premise of the statement at all. However, if your demographics are such that you have a large and increasing ageing population AND public health finances have limits - invariably there are never unlimited funds available for health. Then, I would not want to be the health minister implementing the policy change to decrease the treatment side of the budget with the obvious consequences that some may die sooner in order to expand the education and prevention side as an investment for the future. haha it really was one of the school exam questions, was just wondering how people were going to respond to this :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AASA Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 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? Depends on your overall education attendance ? If you have a large rural population who don't receive the education then its a waste of time. Also how do you target the already at risk ? As always thes things are more dynamic than a general statement, perhaps better targeting 'at risk' groups. It would produce minimum investment and maximum impact. Then you can look at secondary education measures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbkbkk Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 so we are not talking about how not to have baby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CherieAtwood Posted May 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 so we are not talking about how not to have baby? Do we wanna talk about it?! :shock: :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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