Reducing the Cost of HealthCare-- preventative care

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/329/5/321

Using “preventative care” to reduce medical cost intrinsically makes sense. Reducing the number of people the number of people suffering from chronic conditions would certainly reduce costs more then any one gadget, but “preventative care” is broad vague and hard to define. This article makes the statement that “Preventable illness makes up 70 percent of the burden of illness and the associated cost.” It goes on to discuss how health promotion in the work place can help reduce costs. Information like “recent review of 28 separate studies of health promotion in the workplace emphasized the effects on documented cost reduction, with the savings generally being three or more times greater than the program costs” is given to suppose their claim.