2023-09-20 07:00:00
Our healthcare system has historically been designed around a curative approach, which favors individual care rather than collective action. – Credit:Laure Boyer/Hans Lucas via AFP
The widespread vaccination campaign against papillomavirus (HPV), in middle schools for 5th grade students, launched a few weeks ago, illustrates the French delay in prevention. Indeed, at the end of 2021, less than 46% of 15-year-old girls and barely 6% of boys of the same age had received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to Inserm. Furthermore, each year in France, 140,000 people are affected by so-called preventable cancer and more than 40% of cancers are attributed to lifestyle and environmental factors.
We therefore understand that prevention goes well beyond just treatment. It refers to all the actions carried out – by governments and health actors – and the attitudes and behaviors followed by individuals to avoid the development of symptoms or illnesses, to promote early treatment in the event of a disorder. and slow down its worsening in the case of a chronic illness. It therefore calls for a global vision of health, taking into account all the social determinants of health and capable of targeting the populations most at risk.
Anticipate risks
Our healthcare system has historically been designed around a curative approach, which favors individual care rather than collective action. With the aging of the population and the explosion of chronic diseases, it is imperative to evolve our system towards more anticipation of risks, in mobile […] Read more
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