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Fulfilling the Potential of Cancer Prevention and Early Detection An American Cancer Society and Institute of Medicine Symposium (2004) / Chapter Skim
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4 Wrap-Up Session
Pages 115-119

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From page 115...
... Along those lines, we were urged, even during an economic downturn for public support for things like this, to continue to be very assertive and not apologetic about advocating for resources in these areas. Another comment was that there is really not a single entity or organization empowered or resourced to do the job of primary prevention for tobacco and obesity and improved nutrition.
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From page 116...
... There was a lot of discussion about lack of analogies, the risk of demonization of the food industry versus cooperation, stigmatization of the obese, and so forth, so that the solution for tobacco probably will not work well for obesity. The final big point was that there was a continuing need for a clear national strategy, not only for the obesity problem as we pointed out in the report, but even still for tobacco.
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From page 117...
... In terms of private insurance, we touched on two possible leverage points. One was expanding options for pretax medical spending plans; people participate in them, but they don't know that they could spend them for help with smoking cessation, with dietary change, and so forth.
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From page 118...
... Task Force for Community Preventive Services. Using those task forces, their deliberation processes, the information that they glean from really drilling down in the extant literature, in research and funding announcements, so that they can provide some direction on where we want to go.
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From page 119...
... This national or federalized clinical preventive services program would allow private insurers to offload these, and give the Medicare program, that would benefit most from healthier beneficiaries at entry, the responsibility of providing those services that would make for a healthier population. Another interesting thought was raised on a sticking point between individual choice in behaviors and policy options.
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