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Preventative Care as an Emerging Public Health Trend

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I need 200 to 300 words on one trend in global health and how this trend may affect public health in a community.

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This solution provides a brief outline of the rise of preventative medicine as a health trend and it's ideology/rationale, implementation and impact.

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A big trend that has been building momentum in the last decade is the shift from acute treatment of illnesses as symptoms begin to arise towards a model of preventative medicine. The concept of this is to prevent illness via long-term reinforcement of healthy lifestyles and habits, thereby decreasing the likelihood of illness, increasing quality of life and decreasing the burden of illness on the community as a whole.

For example, instead of treating diabetes with insulin after a ...

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