A half ounce of prevention ...

An Ounce of Prevention at Half Price: Evaluating a Subsidy on Health Investments

This paper examines how investments in health, through spending on preventive care, affect subsequent spending on medical care among the retired population. Augmenting a traditional dynamic consumption-savings model with two medical care goods, I estimate a structural life cycle model using data on single retired Americans from the Health and Retirement Study; I then conduct policy counterfactu...

Pound of prevention, ounce of cure?

An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure.

“An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure”

767 J Clin Psychiatry 68:5, May 2007 he future of child and adolescent psychiatry lies in the identification of prodromal presentations and risk factors associated with the onset and progression of psychopathology. Only once we begin to understand the early clinical manifestations of psychiatric disorders and the risk factors, genetic and environmental, associated with illness onset and outcome...

An Ounce of Prevention from a Ton of Tomatoes

Over the last 15 years, various oncology groups throughout the world have used the PRETEXT system for staging malignant primary liver tumours of childhood. This paper, written by members of the radiology and surgery committees of the International Childhood Liver Tumor Strategy Group (SIOPEL), presents various clarifications and revisions to the original PRETEXT system.