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U.S. Could Save 100,000 Lives a Year with Five Basic Preventive Services
Date:6/8/2009

t, these services are under-utilized, needlessly placing people at risk."

Partnership is urging Congress to provide coverage for high-value preventive services in all federal health plans, to encourage it in all private plans, and to remove deductibles and co-pays. Gould notes that three of the five services mentioned in the ad - aspirin counseling, tobacco cessation counseling and adult flu immunization - actually save money, while the other two services are highly cost-effective.

The five clinical services cited by Partnership have low utilization rates - 40 percent for daily aspirin use, 37 percent for tobacco cessation counseling, 48 percent for colorectal screening and 67 percent for breast cancer screening.

If the utilization rates of each of those services were increased to 90 percent, the US would save 45,000 additional lives through daily aspirin use, 42,000 additional lives through tobacco cessation counseling 12,000 lives through adult influenza immunization, 14,000 additional lives through colorectal screening, and 3,700 lives through breast cancer screening.

The estimates were based on a study by the National Commission on Prevention Priorities, a Partnership for Prevention initiative that analyzes the value of preventive services.

In addition to the print ad, Partnership's education campaign will include a Facebook page where citizens can contact their members of Congress; an online "widget" with an interactive quiz on preventive services (http://tinyurl.com/100kquiz); and op-eds in newspapers around the country.


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