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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

As most who post here know health care is an issue i follow carefully.

A few threads are currently floating around. Ive asked a few questions, with, of course, no reply. What i have noticed is a few misconceptions.

The questions are as follows...

What constitutes preventative health care?
Um, stuff that prevents health problems? I think I need to phone a friend on this one.

Do you consider health an individual problem or a community problem, or both?
I am my brother's keeper.
(OK, I didn't really make that up- I copied that from the Communist Manifesto or something)

Im curious as to the answers to these questions.
You and me both, sister.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
The questions are as follows...

What constitutes preventative health care? [A]

Do you consider health an individual problem or a community problem, or both? [B]

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What constitutes preventative health care?

Do you consider health an individual problem or a community problem, or both?

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

As most who post here know health care is an issue i follow carefully.

A few threads are currently floating around. Ive asked a few questions, with, of course, no reply. What i have noticed is a few misconceptions.

The questions are as follows...

What constitutes preventative health care?

Do you consider health an individual problem or a community problem, or both?

Im curious as to the answers to these questions.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
What constitutes preventative health care?
  I have had a heart murmur since my early 20's and a potentially bad heart rythm since my 30's.  I have had chest pain at which time all the usual heart check up stuff was done, including a contrast view of my heart via MRI.  Ok since all that testing was done, I have no insurance, except for about 2 yrs.

Preventive health would have been to follow the murmur and rythm to see that it went no farther.  Well no insurance meant meant nothing was done to see if both had advanced.  If I had had preventive heart (cardiac failure) care........
I would NOT have passed out dragonboat racing.  I was dragged to the hospital where my EKG was "bad" and hence all the same tests repeated, except the stress EKG.  I have left ventricular cardiomyopathy (the heart disease that kills young athletes while they are playing hard).  Well damage done, 35% ejection fraction.

PREVENTATIVELY one cardiac MD wanted to do an invasive search for any heart blokages, instead he opted for the  64 slice CT scan of my heart (it was cheaper) and found 30% blockage in one artery.   

With insurance, all the tests were done again and I also have cholesterol and hyperlipidemia in addition.

Since preventative care was done, they now keep track of my ejection fraction and it has improved with meds and my lipids soared down with alternative therapy.

Once again I have no insurance and the billing department refuses to allow me to have hylagon injections to PREVENT a knee replacement. 

A much cheaper way to go but no THE COMPANY wants to make money and they make no money if I pay $100.00 for each injection.

Do you consider health an individual problem or a community problem, or both?
 
It is a community problem.  The local MEDICAL FACILITIES CONTROL who gets treated and who does not depending on the pocket book of the patient.  

Ones on T-19 get treated for a nick on their finger while they refuse me to have a mammogram.  And my sister is a breast cancer survivor.  I am not on T-19 and without insurance.  Lost in the bottomless pit with thousands of others in my position. 

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Let me get a rain check, Tazzy, cuz I'm just about to go lay naked under the airflow from the cooler.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

What constitutes preventative health care?

Do you consider health an individual problem or a community problem, or both?

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The flu is highly contageous, and affects millions each year. Yet, if you dont have the money, or insurance, you cannot protect yourself as those who "have" can. THIS is where the line has been drawn... between the haves and the have nots.

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

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What constitutes preventative health care?

Do you consider health an individual problem or a community problem, or both?

Preventative health care is when you go to the doctor before you get sick for checkups, in order to catch things before they get out of hand. It is also getting vaccines to prevent catching illnesses. It can also include talking to your doctor about a diet if you are overweight or exercising more.

I think health care or the lack of it affect everyone, so I would go with both on that question.

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Smallpox is believed to have emerged in human populations about 10,000 BC.[2] The earliest physical evidence of smallpox is likely the pustular rash on the mummified body of Pharaoh Ramses V of Egypt, who died in 1157 BC.[6] During the 18th century the disease killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans per year (including five reigning monarchs),[7] and was responsible for a third of all blindness.[3][8] Of all those infected, 20–60%—and over 80% of infected children—died from the disease.[9]

Smallpox was responsible for an estimated 300–500 million deaths during the 20th century alone.[10][11][12] In the early 1950s an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year.[13] As recently as 1967, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 15 million people contracted the disease and that two million died in that year.[13] After successful vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in December 1979.[13] To this day, smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been eradicated.[14

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Yes, a poor paying job that you cant afford to be sick from, so you give it to others. Interesting how that works.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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Smallpox is believed to have emerged in human populations about 10,000 BC.[2] The earliest physical evidence of smallpox is likely the pustular rash on the mummified body of Pharaoh Ramses V of Egypt, who died in 1157 BC.[6] During the 18th century the disease killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans per year (including five reigning monarchs),[7] and was responsible for a third of all blindness.[3][8] Of all those infected, 20–60%—and over 80% of infected children—died from the disease.[9]

Smallpox was responsible for an estimated 300–500 million deaths during the 20th century alone.[10][11][12] In the early 1950s an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year.[13] As recently as 1967, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 15 million people contracted the disease and that two million died in that year.[13] After successful vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in December 1979.[13] To this day, smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been eradicated.[14

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

Now, what are those reasons not to take vaccinations?