Prevention, a key area for better care and savings

by time news

2024-01-19 20:34:44

DECRYPTION – Better screening of cancers and the fight against addictions would generate a gain of 5 billion to 16.7 billion euros.

Barely appointed at the head of a vast ministry – ranging from Labor to Health via Solidarity – Catherine Vautrin was criticized for the banner of her X account (ex-Twitter). The 63-year-old from Rémoise had posted a photo of Champagne vines… which she hastened to replace with a photo of her visit to the Dijon hospital last Saturday with Gabriel Attal. Anecdotal of course, but en plein “dry january”, this episode reveals the public health issues linked to alcohol, the second preventable cause of cancer mortality, responsible for 28,000 new cases each year. The subject has heated minds all the more as prevention has disappeared from Catherine Vautrin’s job title, where her predecessors Aurélien Rousseau and François Braun were Ministers of Health and Prevention. Suffice to say that the players in the sector are waiting for the appointment of a delegate minister – the name of Agnès Pannier-Runacher comes up for this position with insistence…

This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 83% left to discover.

Do you want to read more?

Unlock all items immediately.

Already subscribed? Log in

#Prevention #key #area #care #savings

You may also like

Leave a Comment