The Great Health Dilemma: Is Prevention Better than Cure?
Autor Christopher Dyeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mai 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198853824
ISBN-10: 0198853823
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 139 x 217 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198853823
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 139 x 217 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
I strongly recommend The Great Health Dilemma not only to teachers and students of public health but to anyone who is interested in their own health, their children's health and the health of the planet.
It may seem self-evident that prevention is better than cure, but we seldom act as if we believed it. In this brilliant work, Christopher Dye describes the many ways prevention is undervalued in comparison to its demonstrable benefits. Everyone who cares about the public's health—and their own—has much to gain from absorbing Dye's lessons.
In a chapter on unlikely disasters, Chris Dye explores pandemic preparedness as a highly topical example of prevention. Invoking principles used throughout the book, he argues that Covid-19 should be seen not as an isolated, once-in-a-lifetime event, but rather as one among hundreds of outbreaks of infectious diseases that are recorded each year. Borrowing ideas from the insurance industry, he suggests pooling all risks and sharing the costs to fund the development of generic "platform" technologies – precursors for diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines that can be into called into action to combat a wide variety of pathogens as they emerge. This is a book for all who are concerned about the disruption of our planet, and about the increased opportunities that it creates for emergence of infectious pathogens at the animal/human interface.
By incisively dissecting the dialectical relationship between prevention and treatment of illness, Chris Dye has laid bare one of the great contradictions in health. His razor-sharp analysis unravels the complexity of our values and choices that has seen prevention remaining a poor neglected cousin of treatment. A truly enlightening book - a must-read!
Using the example of TB, Chris Dye explains that by addressing the underlying risk factors and determinants for the disease, one would in fact be preventing a host of other health conditions and improving wellbeing. While biological and immunological reasons make finding a vaccine for TB challenging, we should also be addressing environmental, economic, and social risk factors for ill health.
It may seem self-evident that prevention is better than cure, but we seldom act as if we believed it. In this brilliant work, Christopher Dye describes the many ways prevention is undervalued in comparison to its demonstrable benefits. Everyone who cares about the public's health—and their own—has much to gain from absorbing Dye's lessons.
In a chapter on unlikely disasters, Chris Dye explores pandemic preparedness as a highly topical example of prevention. Invoking principles used throughout the book, he argues that Covid-19 should be seen not as an isolated, once-in-a-lifetime event, but rather as one among hundreds of outbreaks of infectious diseases that are recorded each year. Borrowing ideas from the insurance industry, he suggests pooling all risks and sharing the costs to fund the development of generic "platform" technologies – precursors for diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines that can be into called into action to combat a wide variety of pathogens as they emerge. This is a book for all who are concerned about the disruption of our planet, and about the increased opportunities that it creates for emergence of infectious pathogens at the animal/human interface.
By incisively dissecting the dialectical relationship between prevention and treatment of illness, Chris Dye has laid bare one of the great contradictions in health. His razor-sharp analysis unravels the complexity of our values and choices that has seen prevention remaining a poor neglected cousin of treatment. A truly enlightening book - a must-read!
Using the example of TB, Chris Dye explains that by addressing the underlying risk factors and determinants for the disease, one would in fact be preventing a host of other health conditions and improving wellbeing. While biological and immunological reasons make finding a vaccine for TB challenging, we should also be addressing environmental, economic, and social risk factors for ill health.
Notă biografică
Chris Dye began professional life as a biologist and ecologist (BA York 1978) but postgraduate research on mosquitoes (DPhil Oxford 1982) led to a career in epidemiology and public health.He is currently Professor of Epidemiology at Oxford University where he is working to make a stronger case for prevention in public health. He is a Fellow of The UK Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of Biology.