Society for the Early Detection

¶ … society for the early detection and treatment of diseases?

Early detection and treatment of diseases would have a huge cost benefit to society for a variety of reasons. Most of these reasons are intrinsically linked to the health and wellness of the general population, which is less costly to maintain than that of a sick population, which requires considerable more care and economic effort to sustain such care. In that respect, it is nothing less than a duty for countries with a degree of economic stability to implement measures of disease treatment via early detection to keep its population healthy and reduce costs associated with medical treatment.

One of the principle reasons for the facilitation of preventative treatment and early detection of any potential maladies is the fact that people have to spend a considerable greater amount of money curing conditions once they occur. This is true in the case of both fatal and non-fatal conditions. The veracity of this statement is corroborated by the fact that the longer a potentially hazardous condition exists within a person, the more difficult it is to cure it. Time is very valuable when it comes to correcting negative health conditions; the more time that elapses after the onset of a disease simply means there is more time for the problem to exacerbate itself. A document from the University of Connecticut entitled "The Economic Impact of Prevention" states that "Evidence clearly demonstrates the health benefits and economic value of prevention. The impact of benefit and value is greatest when prevention is implemented at the earliest opportunity" (i).

An examination of the different costs associated with disease also indicates that oftentimes, it is significantly more advantageous to prevent such a disease from occurring by utilizing some method of early detection that to allow it foment and negate the health of a particular individual. When people become sick through any sort of negligible health condition, such as a viral infection, for example, there are an assortment of costs that must be factored to account for the total expense for such a disease. Not only does one have to take account any form of medical treatment that such a person has to utilize in order to attempt to restore his or her health, but there are also costs associated with such a person missing time at work if the condition is so severe that he or she is bedridden. or, if the health condition was not so severe as to actually keep such an individual from work, there would surely be other costs associated with that individual's attempts to battle for health, including reduced productivity at work which would minimize his or her output and affect the amount of money the employing agency would make. However, all of these aforementioned costs could simply be eschewed via early detection and the prevention of any sort of health malady.