Is the ounce of screening and prevention for skin cancer worth the 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 Is Worth a Pound of Cure

Prevention and cure? Or: is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure?

A common problem of everyday life is that of deciding how much to spend to avoid something unpleasant happening, and then, if the worst comes to the worst, of deciding how much to spend to remedy the situation. This paper provides a framework for the analysis of such problems, focussing specifically on the appropriate allocation of expenditure on (preventative and curative) health care. A two-s...

Pound of prevention, ounce of cure?

Flu Shots, Work Absences and Hospitalizations: Is an Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure?

In this study, I evaluate the health and economic consequences of a broad-based flu vaccination program. The Ontario Influenza Immunization Campaign was introduced in 2001, and delivers free flu shots to healthy children and adults. This program is novel and controversial. Traditionally, the flu shot is recommended only for the elderly or infirm and it is assumed that benefits outside these gro...