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Why is prevention so difficult and slow?

Department of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge, Correspondence address: Professor Erik AUander, MD, PhD Department of Social Medicine, M 96, WHO Collaborating Centre for the Epidemiology of Rheumatic Conditions, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, SE-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden

B. I. B. Lindahl

Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

abundance of perceived "possibilities" for prevention rasts sharply with the difficulties that face preventive grammes. We argue that this situation has emerged from incomplete understanding of the process of prevention, Iving a mixture of biological factors, human decisioning and time perspectives. Based on examples, anlysis of the factors in the prevention process is presented.

Key Words: prevention • causality • efficiency • behaviour lification • biological evolution.

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 25, No. 3, 145-148 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/140349489702500301


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