cq3; preventative vs. curative Flashcards

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Why has health expenditure increased over the years?

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It costs more to ‘cure’ a disease, than prevent it and a large amount of the population already have these diseases due to an ageing population.

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How much has healthcare expenditure increased by?

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$160 billion (2015) to $185 billion (2018) to $261 billion (2024)

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Why should Australia lean towards prevention?

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Leading causes of death and illness are lifestyle related and highly preventable

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Why is it cheaper to spend money on health promotion and prevention rather than treatment?

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An individual will spend more for treatment than prevention of their illness (e.g. gym membership now to accumulated yearly expenses for cardiovascular disease)

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Why is it so much more expensive to treat illnesses rather than prevent them?

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  • Usually compounded and expensive
  • Equipment used for treatment is expensive
  • Often requires highly trained professionals
  • Often requires lengthy hospital stays
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If we know prevention programs work, then why aren’t we allocating more funding to intervention and prevention?

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  • There are already so many people that need curative services
  • Not all diseases can be prevented (e.g. type 1 diabetes)
  • We live in an ageing population, harder to prevent diseases when old + more likely to have diseases
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What are the examples for prevention?

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  • National tobacco strategy
  • SunSmart
  • Quitline
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What are the examples of curative expenditure?

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  • PBS
  • Medicare
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How much of the health care budget goes to curative treatment?

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Previously 98% but now 80% of the $261bn budget

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What are the disadvantages of curative treatment?

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  • creates inequities and its why health facilities are only equitable to a moderate extent.
  • relies heavily on access and some determinants restrict access more for particular sub groups
  • the more that is spent on curative, the less that goes to prevention, thus assisting to make things more inequitable.
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What are the benefits of prevention?

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  • empowers people to take control of their own health
  • relies less on access
  • improves equity by addressing health literacy and focusing on lifestyle behaviours
  • reduces the burden on the health care system
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What is the paradoxical nature of the Australian approach to preventative expenditure?

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although there has been a shift towards prevention over the last 25 years, it only makes up 2% of the health care budget.

but recently it has made up 20% of the budget

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