Chronic Disease Prevention: The Key to Improving Life and Healthcare

We hear much discussion about healthcare coverage and costs associated with insurance, pharmaceuticals, surgical interventions, and related issues. All of these are important, but leave out perhaps the most important topic, prevention.

Think about this for a minute, does it make more sense to pay for regular oil changes on your vehicle ($50-$75) every few thousand miles, or pay to replace your engine ($2,500-$4,500). There is a growing desperate need to understand this comparison and public health chronic disease prevention programs are in place to be sure these messages are understood.

The urgency of addressing chronic disease can’t be stressed enough – these conditions account for over 86% of our healthcare costs, and much of this is preventable. If invested in properly, we could spend $240 now on prevention instead of $1,000 in the future on reactive healthcare costs for chronic disease.

 

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