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Primary Prevention Challenges in US Health Care

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How are the above impeded in primary prevention in the current US Health system?

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Communities have to deal with distance to services, rural issues, lack of adequate quality food and other resources in some inner cities that have an effect on health services. Receiving preventive or other health care services are often difficult.

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The current US Health system contrasts the style of practicing medicine in previous decades and centuries, whereas spirituality and natural resources were more the foundation for treatment carrying on with health. In western cultures, up until recently, the notion of prevention was not a primary focus in the daily lives of citizens or medical care professionals. The country is made of so many different social niches and so much cultural diversity that it can cause challenges with traditions and language barriers. Challenges in some communities such as distance (to quality services) in rural areas and lack of adequate fresh food and other resources in some poverty-stricken inner ...

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