U7IP: Contemporary Issues in Health Care

Deliverable Length: 3-5 Pages

Funding preventative care in the United States has created huge financial challenges. For example, most drinking water contains fluoride for the prevention of tooth decay; however, in implementing this prevention strategy, much financial efforts needed to be made.

It has been greatly advertised by politicians that preventative care saves money; however, in their arguments, neither data nor any scientific evidence was introduced, making this statement more of an opinion than a fact.

For this assignment, you are to discuss evidence-based findings that examine this. An example of an evidence based study that examines preventative care can be found in this article. 

For this assignment, consider the following questions:

• What is preventive care? Give examples.
• Does preventive care save money in the health care sector? 
• Does preventive care increase the total cost of health care?
  • Provide specific instances for each scenario.
• Is there a general rule in terms of the effect that preventative care has on expenditure, or is it purely circumstantial? Explain.

Reference

Cohen, J. T., Neumann, P. J., & Weinstein, M.C. (2008). Does preventative care save money? Retrieved from the New England Journal of Medicine Web site: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0708558