| |AUGUST 202119I n India, there is a need to shift focus from a curated-orient-ed mindset to a preventive one when it comes to building the health-care ecosystem. To set the context, there are ideally two healthcare strat-egies: preventive and post-diagnosis. Preventive healthcare or preventive medicine or prophylaxis is related to an absence of disease, either by pre-venting the occurrence of a health problem or by slowing and averting resulting complications after its on-set. It pertains to measures taken to preserve health, as opposed to the treatment of disease. All in all, pre-ventive strategies in healthcare refer to measures taken to prevent illness-es from occurring. On the other hand, post-diagnosis strategies refer to measures taken to cure an illness.All these years, there have been many post-diagnosis strategies introduced in India. For instance, in its endeavour towards a healthy nation, the government has undertaken various initiatives like Health for Alland The National Health Assurance Missionto reduce the burden of chronic diseases. The healthcare modalities being implemented are pivoted towards the prevention, screening, early intervention and new treatment platforms for patients. Similarly, there is Ayushmann Bharat, which includes an insurance scheme for secondary and tertiary care. However, the design of preventive strategies has been given relatively less importance than post-diagnosis strategies. For example, according to PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS: WHY IT IS IMPORTANT FOR A DEVELOPING COUNTRY LIKE INDIA AND HOW TO ACHIEVE EXPERTISEBy Ashvini Danigond, Executive Director & CEO, Manorama Infosolutions Pvt Ltd (MIPL)THOUGHT CENTRALAshvini Danigond
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