Disease prevention gains attention

摘要

As policymakers debate health care reform, pharmacists and public health experts urge a renewed focus on preventing chronic diseases, not just treating them.rn"The major disease problems of our society and time will not be solved by the clinical care system alone," said James S. Marks, senior vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, during a June 19 briefing in Washington, D.C.rn"What we really need is not more, and more expensive, treatments. What we really need is less disease," he said.