Question

Explain the difference between preventive and curative spraying of chemicals.

Answer 1

Curative is a practice when you treat the disease after the pathological process has started. So the disease has already begun to atleast manifest. Stopping the disease from advancing is called secondary prevention. For example, giving warfarin to a parient who has been diagnosed with DVT.

Preventive ( medicine) is a practice in which you prevent the onset and progression of the disease through timely detection i.e. screening. You don’t let the disease manifest and so you prevent any health hazards and treatment costs associated with it. It’s better than curative in all aspects. Aka primary and primordial prevention.

For example, Screening all individuals above 30 for Diabetes mellitus.

Unfortunately, the major part of a physocians practice is curative only. So the healthcare is so costly and ineffectively implemented