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The King's Fund: What is prevention in health? (18 June 2025)

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An important role for the health and care system, and wider government, is to help people live longer and healthier lives by reducing the chance of illness in the first place, or preventing the progression of symptoms once people become ill. But different people mean different things by prevention. This King's Fund long read sets out some of the different ways it is understood.

The King's Fund: What is prevention in health? (18 June 2025) https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/long-reads/what-is-prevention-in-health?utm_source

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