Prevention is better than cure Researching and treating diseases is too costly so it would be better to invest in preventive measures To what extent do you agree

Essay topics:

"Prevention is better than cure". Researching and treating diseases is too costly so it would be better to invest in preventive measures.

To what extent do you agree.

The current pandemic has taught us many lessons, but none has been clearer than the importance of prevention. We have seen first hand how difficult it is to contain, research and treat new diseases. So, many people say it’s better to prevent illness than cure it. In this essay I will discuss why I agree that prevention is better and why some people oppose it.

In the past, when we didn’t know the importance of hygiene, illnesses used to run rampant in society. There are still some people who believe that sickness can’t be controlled and it’s a punishment from God rather than listen to science. This misconception is especially widespread in poorer underdeveloped nations where religion and superstition are heeded more by the public than scientific knowledge. The recent spike in the cases of Covid-19 in India, fueled by the religious gatherings of the last month in defiance of advice by the doctors further proves this point.

Even though medicine has made huge advancements, prevention is still our best strategy against many diseases. This is because it’s the easiest and economically better option. Firstly, it’s easier for the individual and the healthcare systems to follow preventive strategies such as maintaining hygiene, eating a healthy diet and exercising regularly. On the other hand, once a person is sick, the effort to keep him alive in hospital through expensive medicine, sophisticated equipment and round the clock care by doctors and nurses becomes very difficult. Secondly, prevention is also much more cost effective option. Since hospital admissions and medicine cost money, it’s cheaper to just live a healthier lifestyle. This benefits both the person and the country as is evident by research. A report by US Bureau of Statistics showed that prevention of cardiac diseases would cost about $100 million annually, while treating the same disease would lead to a loss of about $15 billion per annum.

In conclusion, although medicine has made lots of progress, treating a disease should still be our second strategy. In my opinion our main focus should be on prevention as it’s easier and cheaper.

Votes
Average: 8.9 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 135, Rule ID: MAIN_FOCUS[1]
Message: Use simply 'focus'.
Suggestion: focus
... our second strategy. In my opinion our main focus should be on prevention as it’s easier ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, still, while, in conclusion, such as, in my opinion, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1806.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 348.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18965517241 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75755487073 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.617816091954 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 547.2 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.249786849 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.333333333 106.682146367 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3333333333 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.83333333333 7.06120827912 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282600993005 0.244688304435 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0764917249065 0.084324248473 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.071569669338 0.0667982634062 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152092812314 0.151304729494 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.077862225959 0.056905535591 137% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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