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Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier America
Book • 2024
In *Prevention First*, Dr. Anand K. Parekh argues that disease prevention must be the nation's top health policy priority.
The book emphasizes the need for policymakers to play a greater role in reducing preventable deaths and outlines concrete steps to promote prevention.
It includes new developments in health policy, such as US responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and stresses the importance of leveraging health insurance programs, expanding primary care, addressing social determinants of health, and increasing public health investments.
The book serves as a call to action for improving the health of America's population through prevention-first policies.
The book emphasizes the need for policymakers to play a greater role in reducing preventable deaths and outlines concrete steps to promote prevention.
It includes new developments in health policy, such as US responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and stresses the importance of leveraging health insurance programs, expanding primary care, addressing social determinants of health, and increasing public health investments.
The book serves as a call to action for improving the health of America's population through prevention-first policies.
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Anand Parekh as a summary of his arguments for prioritizing prevention in healthcare policy.
Anand Parekh as a summary of his arguments for prioritizing prevention in healthcare policy.
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Encore: Why Our Current Healthcare System Keeps Us Sick And How To Fix It
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Mark Hyman as a book that argues for a more focused research emphasis on prevention, looking at the biology of illnesses, behavioral change, and policy.
Mark Hyman as a book that argues for a more focused research emphasis on prevention, looking at the biology of illnesses, behavioral change, and policy.
Why Our Current Healthcare System Keeps Us Sick And How To Fix It
