Why and how prevention is better than cure?





(A)

Many problems can be completely prevented, but not many can be completely cured. Also, prevention is cheap and easy, but the cure can be terribly expensive and painful. This is true in essentially all aspects of life.

(B)

The meaning of the proverb ‘prevention is better than cure’ is that it is much more easy to prevent a problem from happening than to solve the problem after it has already happened.
Similarly, it is much more easy to get things right at the first place than to get repaired the damaged ones. The cost of preventive maintenance is much lower than the cost of repairing the damaged ones.
 We should use our ability to the foresight and try to prevent any adverse situation that may arise in the future. We should be careful enough to take all appropriate preventive measures for known risk.

(C)


Diseases such as emphysema, cirrhosis of the liver, and lung cancer are preventable. Emphysema occurs from smoking cigarettes, cirrhosis of the liver occurs from long-standing also prevention is better than a cure because it literally prevents the discomfort and costs of becoming sick or experiencing a similar preventable event. It also often takes less effort to prevent something than to cure it, hence the popular expression "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."hol abuse, and lung cancer occurs from smoking cigarettes.

While there are treatments for these diseases, there are permanent, adverse changes to the body which are irreversible.
Hypertension often leads to stroke and kidney disease. Changes to diet and following a medication regime with a PCP and making healthy life changes can’t prevent the negative outcomes associated with uncontrolled hypertension. Recovering from a stroke is often difficult and there is some permanent damage and kidney failure usually leads to dialysis and/or a need for a kidney transplant.
(D)
Healthy eating, regular exercise, and not-smoking allow you to live a longer and fuller life. For those diseases that are preventable, prevention is always better than the cure. Less pain, less stress, more life enjoyment. Staying well is an overall better experience compared to fixing something that’s broken.
However, the idea that prevention is better than a cure refers to more than just illness. The now common expression "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" originally came from Benjamin Franklin, who coined the phrase when he wrote a short essay about how to prevent house fires. As he noted, it was much less expensive to practice fire safety than it was to rebuild a house that burned to the ground
(E).
A common situation in which prevention is less effective is when the risk of an event is low. It does not make sense to expend much money and effort to prevent something that will almost certainly not occur.
Low prevalence often bedevils proposals to screen for rare diseases. Usually, there is enough error in the screening test that you end up with more false positives than true positives. If the false positives are then treated (unnecessarily), and treatment has significant risks and costs, then it can be better not to be screened in the first place. Screening for prostate cancer appears to be in this category for most men.
Even screening for diabetes and diabetes prevention are borderline. Studies prove that you can delay diabetes with diet and exercise, but very few people actually succeed at doing so; high blood sugar is easy to control with very inexpensive drugs after the diagnosis.
Note that taking medicines can be a major form of prevention. In fact, medicines are often the most effective prevention actions because they are proven by randomized trials to work (assuming they are, that is) and most people can swallow a pill every day even if they cannot manage to change their diet or their level of activity.
(F)
Humans have the sense to distinguish the right and wrong, the good and bad, the safe and danger. He can judge the situation before the situations engulf him. Precautions halt the evil before it overpowers him whereas cure is a solution to the risk factor which has already engulfed him. Hence prevention is better than cure.
The healthy diet and regular exercise prevent the risk of some cardiovascular diseases, blood pressure or diabetes. AIDS is the most terrifying disease. Though it is not curable, it can be prevented with proper precautions.