Beyond “prevention is better than cure”: understanding prevention and early intervention as an approach to public policy

Kennedy, Fiachra

doi:10.1080/25741292.2020.1736766

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“…There are several challenges for policy-makers and service professionals wanting to shift the investment balance from emergency services towards preventive programs (Boswell et al, 2019;Cairney & St Denny, 2020;Head & Redmond, 2011;Kennedy, 2020). Faced with a choice between funding hospitals and funding community health services, governments may prefer to take the credit for tangible artefacts such as buildings and medical technologies.…”

Section: Prevention Coping and Adaptive Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2023

Encyclopedia of Public Policy

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Section: Prevention Coping and Adaptive Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…The idiom ‘prevention is better than cure’ has rhetorical weight across many governments. It sums up the idea that governments can save money and reduce inequalities by engaging preventively, to stop problems before they happen or prevent them getting worse ( Kennedy, 2020 ). Policy initiatives backed by this general idea can be found in sectors including social policy, education, and criminal justice, and cross-sectoral initiatives such as ‘preventive spending’, and can be traced back to initiatives over the past century ( Cairney & St.Denny, 2020 ).…”

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Why is health improvement policy so difficult to secure?

Cairney¹,

Denny²

2022

Open Res Europe

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Many governments seek to improve population health, and some seek to reduce health inequalities. Yet, there remains a large gap between their policy statements and actual outcomes. Perennial questions in public health research include: why is this gap so large, why does it endure, and what can be done to close it? This essay uses political science and policy studies insights to address these questions, focusing on the distinctive issues that relate to (1) broad aims like ‘prevention’, (2) specific strategies for health improvement, or (3) new events. On the one hand, the idea of ‘prevention’ has widespread appeal, when governments think they can save money or reduce inequalities by preventing problems happening or worsening. While health protection seeks to inoculate populations against communicable diseases, health improvement strategies, including ‘Health in All Policies’ (HiAP), primarily address non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Further, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlights the unequal spread of ill health, showing that preventive health ideas should be at the core of policy. On the other hand, there is a large gap between rhetorical and substantive commitment to prevention, a continuous HiAP implementation gap, and a tendency for COVID-19 health protection to overshadow health improvement. Explaining each problem clearly helps to identify the factors that generally undermine prevention policies and those specific to more detailed strategies like HiAP or events like COVID-19. We do not prioritise leadership or ‘political will’ as the policymaking problem. Instead, we identify the systemic factors that apply to even the most sincere, competent, and energetic policymakers. Health improvement policy is typically undermined by a lack of: clarity about what prevention means in practice; congruity between the prevention agenda (emphasising the need for major change to policy and policymaking) and routine government business; and, capacity to overcome obstacles to policy change.

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“…Yet, the essence of organizational concern towards environment protection is much noteworthy in CPP ( Aranda-Usón et al., 2020 ; Cesar da Silva et al., 2021 ; de Oliveira et al., 2019 ; Ramos et al., 2021 ; Scarazzato et al., 2017 ) which makes former significantly less industrious in terms of our environmental safeguard measures ( Botti et al., 2017 ; Cong and Shi, 2019 ; Psomas and Antony, 2019 ; Salam and Farooq, 2020 ). Moreover, according to Yüksel (2008) CPP is more than a simple implementation of post-production environmental protection regulations ( Cesar da Silva et al., 2021 ; de Oliveira et al., 2019 ; Frydenberg et al., 2004 ; Kennedy, 2020 ; Scarazzato et al., 2017 ). It goes far beyond unpretentious end of the production process measures/compliance (e.g.…”

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Cleaner production practices at company level enhance the desire of employees to have a significant positive impact on society through work

Farooq

Salam

2021

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Implementation of cleaner production practices (CPP), service quality (SQ) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) is often studied at organizational level. A number of studies on trio have reported it’s significant impact on overall organizational performance and profitability across the globe. However, not much is studied about the individual level micro influence of these constructs on employee engagement (EE), organizational pride (OP), organizational identification (OI) and “desire to have a significant impact through work” (DSIW). Therefore, this study presents a comprehensive framework for assessing the impact of the implementation of CPP, SQ and CSR on EE, OP, OI and DSIW. Data collected from 320 non-managerial staff members employed at a garments manufacturing company in Pakistan was analyzed using partial least square (PLS) approach. Findings revealed that the implementation of CPP, SQ and CSR plays an important role in shaping EE, OP, OI and DSIW in the garments manufacturing industry. Further, it is found that the implementation of CPP has a non-significant impact on SQ. Additionally, results of the importance-performance map analysis (IPMA) have also confirmed that the implementation of CPP at company level has shown a highest importance and performance amongst all the latent constructs proposed as predictors of DSIW in the garments manufacturing industry. These findings are a step forward and unique contribution of this study in the domain of CPP, SQ, CSR, EE, OP, OI and DSIW.

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Beyond “prevention is better than cure”: understanding prevention and early intervention as an approach to public policy

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Wicked Problems in Public Policy

Wicked Problems in Public Policy

Why is health improvement policy so difficult to secure?

Cleaner production practices at company level enhance the desire of employees to have a significant positive impact on society through work

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