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Health Financing Reform Should Continue to Increase the Impact of Prevention |
- Financing reforms should increase support for research on community-based and clinical prevention – Increased Federal funding for public health systems research and health services research will enhance our ability to translate knowledge about prevention into effective policy and practice. Additional research will increase our understanding of which community and clinical preventive services are most effective and most cost-effective and in which settings.
- Financing mechanisms should support the development of system performance standards related to prevention and the subsequent evaluation of performance - Prevention-centered health reform requires that the nation develop performance standards to measure progress in promoting health and preventing disease. The performance measures should address both clinical and community preventive services and should help guide future decisions by Congress to ensure that our investment in prevention yields maximum results.
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