The World Health Organization famously define health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,” so whilst it’s perhaps long overdue, it’s not surprising that a growing number of healthcare providers are turning their attention to preventing disease rather than just curing it.
The UK’s new health minister Matt Hancock has made prevention a fundamental tranche of his tenure, and outlined his vision for prevention in a recently published paper, in which he identified prevention as one of his three priorities going forward.