IELTS Essay # 58 - Spending public money to promote healthy lifestyle that leads to an improved quality of life is better than spending it on treatment of people who are already ill. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the statement?
Essay # 58
Spending public money to promote healthy lifestyle that leads
to an improved quality of life is better than spending it on treatment of
people who are already ill. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the
statement?
Spending on health
care services is one of the duties of the government. However, whether to spend
for the treatment of the unwell, or to spend on widespread awareness of healthy
living is a debatable issue. This essay shall present logical explanations
regarding the importance of both the perspectives.
Promoting healthy
lifestyles is a challenge for many primary care practices. In the rural areas,
many people fall victims to easily avoidable diseases mainly because they are
not aware about how to prevent them. Therefore, enlightening people about a
healthy lifestyle can remove the existence of many diseases from the roots. For
example, in India the ‘polio vaccine campaign’ has been promoted extensively,
with the help of mainstream media as well. As a result, India as of today is a
completely polio-free country. If the clinicians of medical centres are
encouraged to use educational tools to emphasize personal fitness levels and to
promote fitness as the “treatment of choice” for all patients, the proportion
of the sick people can be greatly reduced.
There is no doubt
that there will always be a certain number of people who are ill and in need of
treatment simply because they cannot afford it. The governments do have a
certain fund for the fulfilment of this need, but practically speaking it shall
put an unnecessary deficit in the money that could be used elsewhere. This is
because the cost of treating any disease will always be more than the money
spent on preventing it. Moreover, logically, the government can be accountable
for the state of health of its citizens, but it cannot be held accountable for
the diseases sustained by its people.
Therefore, to
conclude I’d agree more with the idea of the government spending the public
money on promoting a healthy lifestyle. I don’t say the government should stop
paying for the treatment of the underprivileged, but it would do a lot better
if gradually the numbers of people who fall ill are decreased by alternate
solutions.
(333 words)
IELTS Essay # 58 - Spending public money to promote healthy lifestyle that leads to an improved quality of life is better than spending it on treatment of people who are already ill. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the statement?
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