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Essay by 谢振礼老师 Jeenn Lee Hsieh
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真题还原
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "Public money should
be spent on promoting healthy lifestyle rather than on treating illness." Give
reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own
knowledge or experience.
范文
While treating illness incurs high treatment costs, maintaining wellness is
usually much more cost-effective. An investment strategy to promote people's
healthy lifestyle could not only decrease public funding on hospitals but also
increase the country's overall productivity. It goes without arguing that
staying healthy is just as important as treating illness, so the issue is how to
change unhealthy habits, at both national and personal levels.
If the government's business is business, then it certainly makes business
sense to spend money in building a healthy culture, if only to reduce health
care costs. It is proper to say that focusing on keeping people healthy is
keeping them productive. One of the lessons that the recent economic downhill
has taught us is the importance of a healthy workforce in getting ahead with the
global competition. The government ought to make people aware that they could
not reach their potential without looking after their health; nor could
organizations reach their potential without a healthy workforce. But awareness
alone is not enough to change behavior and achieve the desired health outcomes.
For people to succeed in behavior change, they need a new environment, created
with public money, that reinforces their self-motivation.
At the personal level, one health problem today is apparently lack of
activity as many individuals actually do not do exercise at all. No less obvious
is the problem of obesity which causes a variety of illness, including heart
attack. In view of this phenomenon, the government should do what money can buy,
like campaigns for eating well and going active. Even though people's bad habits
die hard, any small progress in a positive way could make a difference in
changing personal behaviors. The truth is that movement is movement, and even
moderate activities like walking in the park funded by the government could
reduce stress and anxiety related to obesity. Simply put, the government had
better plan a generous budget to promote public wellness and not to allow
matters to get worse, invariably treating illness while losing valuable
productivity.
All things being considered, keeping a healthy lifestyle is a personal as
well as a national issue that deserves public funding, as does treating illness.
To upgrade the general health quality, thereby boosting economic productivity,
is the right policy that could pay off gradually. In the end, the health debate
is not one of either/or because neither could be a waste of public money. |
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:23:15