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Thursday, October 5
25 Steps To Better Health , Report Lists Leading Preventive Health Services - CBS News (CLICK FOR MORE):
"The Partnership for Prevention has released a report listing the top 25 preventive health services. The report, 'Priorities for America’s Health: Capitalizing on Life-Saving, Cost-Effective Preventive Strategies,' was funded by the CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). 'Currently, about 95 percent of health care dollars in the United States are spent on treating diseases, with relatively little attention paid to preventing diseases, which should be a national priority,” states former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., in a Partnership for Prevention news release. 'Basically, these are the preventive health services that offer the biggest bang for the buck,' says Satcher, who chaired the panel that drafted the list. List of Top 25 Preventive Health Services Here is the report's list of the top 25 preventive health services, along with the score assigned by the panel (with 10 being the highest score):..." |