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12 Preventative care refers to care taken to prevent future diseases rather than to treat current ones. Compared with ER care, preventative care is rarely urgent, and ben- efits can be difficult to measure: if you had the flu vaccine this year but did not catch the flu, i is impossible to tell if it was the shot or assiduous hand-washing that preserved you. a Given this description of preventative care, would you expect preventative care to be more or less price-sensitive compared with inpatient care? Why? b Table 2.14 shows evidence on preventative care from the RAND HIE. Summa rize the data in the table and note any interesting patterns. Was your prediction correct? Table 2.14. Percentage with preventative care in the three years from the RAND HIE Study. Males 17-44 Any care 272% 23.1% Males 45-64 Any care 39.1% 27.4% Females 17-44 Females 45-64 Any care Pap test Any care 83.7% 72.2% 76.9%" 65.8% ++ indicates statistically significant difference from the free plan at the p-1% level Pap test 65.0% 52.8%" ree 76.9% Copay 65.3%" Source: Newhouse (1993). With permission from RAND

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Preventative care is qualitative in nature and ensures the citizens against the future risks, many governments worldwide are collaborating with World Health Organisation (WHO) and Non Governmental Organizations like Melinda Gates Foundation etc to work in the research for prevention against newly occuring diseases, by providing them funds, labs, infrastructure and other related facilities, the main motto behind such collaborations is to stabilize the R&D in this sector because preventive projects are more price sensitive with respect to time. Recently Zika virus spreaded in several african and latin american nations, many people died and thousands of people were affected by this epidemic, governments spended millions of dollars in order to prevent the disease from further elevation. Thus prevention is better than control, although the benifits of the expenditure are not visible intially, but it ensures long term security of the people of a nation. Thus we can say that preventative care is more price sensitive than inpatient care, reachabilility point of view.