[多项选择]You have read a newspaper article which states: "Prevention is better than cure. The government should allocate more resources to the prevention of diseases." Do you agree or disagree with this point of view

参考答案:Topic: Prevention is better than cure. The government should allocate more resources to the prevention of diseases.
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Over the past century, prevention of diseases has brought many benefits in health and life expectancy. Many diseases that used to be major causes of death, such as tuberculosis, have been brought under control. Thanks to better health care, higher living standards and medical advances, life expectancy has increased significantly.
Prevention generally falls into two areas-health care and vaccination. Through public health campaigns, people’s awareness of health can be raised, so they pay more attention to nutrition and personal hygiene, boosting their immune system, which makes them less vulnerable to diseases and better able to withstand diseases when they are exposed to them. Regular medical checkups also help people detect signs of diseases at early stages and make it much easier to treat the diseases. A lot of suffering can be prevented, not to say the huge cost.
In the meantime, vaccination has also helped control some diseases. Thanks to vaccines like smallpox and polio vaccines, vaccinated children no longer have such diseases in their later life. Many diseases have virtually disappeared.
Prevention of diseases saves not only individuals but also the country enormous cost of medical bills. Moreover, prevention can make people immune to certain diseases and save them a lot of suffering. Prevention of diseases takes long-term efforts and needs huge resources for research and development. In the short term, the benefits may not be easily seen. In the long run, however, it is in the best interest of people and the country, so it is necessary for the government to allocate more resources to the prevention of diseases.