过去10年中,在西方工业国家,不管有何种卫生保健体系,其卫生保健费用都在大幅度地增加。为此,各国政府试图控制这种“费用爆炸”。本文试图探讨预防在控制医疗费用方面所起的作用。自本世纪初,西方国家在预防疾病上取得了很大成就。通过应用现代环境卫生方法,如清洁饮水、污水排出等,以及普及免疫接种,逐渐地征服了许多传染病。虽然近 In the past 10 years, in Western industrial countries, health care costs have increased substantially, regardless of the health care system. For this reason, governments of various countries try to control this “explosiveness of fees.” This article attempts to explore the role of prevention in controlling medical costs. Since the beginning of this century, Western countries have made great achievements in disease prevention. Through the application of modern environmental sanitation methods, such as clean drinking water, sewage discharge, etc., as well as universal immunization, many contagious diseases have gradually been conquered. Although near