Prevention First - Policymaking for a Healthier America (Hardcover)

Deaths from preventable disease have decreased life expectancy in the United States for the first time in a century. This book argues that we must deal with the crisis by embracing prevention as our nation's top health sector priority. In Prevention First, Dr. Anand K. Parekh, chief medical advisor of the Bipartisan Policy Center, argues that disease prevention must be our nation's top health policy priority. Building a personal culture of prevention, he writes, is not enough; elected officials and policymakers must play a greater role in reducing preventable deaths. Drawing on his experiences as a clinician, public servant, and policy advisor, Dr. Parekh provides examples of prevention in action from across the country, giving readers a view into why prevention-first policies are important and how they can be accomplished. Throughout the book, he demonstrates that, in order to optimize health in America, we must leverage health insurance programs to promote disease prevention, expand primary care, attend to the social determinants of health, support making the healthier choice the easy choice for individuals, and increase public health investments. Describing the areas of common ground to be found in public health and prevention, even between the entrenched sides in the healthcare policy debate, Dr. Parekh establishes a foundation on which healthcare policy makers and advocates can build. Providing concrete steps that federal policymakers should take to promote prevention both within and outside our healthcare sector, Prevention First not only sounds the alarm about the terrible consequences of preventable disease but serves as a rallying cry that we can and must do better in this country to reduce preventable deaths.

General

Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2020
First published:	2019
Authors:	Anand K. Parekh
Foreword by:	Tom Daschle • Bill Frist
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-1-4214-3365-3
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > Public health & safety law Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4214-3365-6
Barcode:	9781421433653

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