tokens: Prevention is better than cure It is a completely right and extremely wise policy to focus on health education and preventative measures rather than treatment . Once applied, it will bring many benefits to both citizens and governments . Health education causes long-term positive effects on our next generations . First of all, thank to a full health education from their childhoods, children will have good habits of taking care of their own health and these habits may be kept in their adolescences . For example, if a child is educated to have a hygienic lifestyle at a very young age, he also keeps it when older . Secondly, health education will prepare for people especially children necessary knowledge to protect themselves from risks of diseases . Instead of afraid or panic, they may be calmer if unfortunately committing some normal diseases such as allergy or illness in seasonal changes . Many diseases which may be cured easily can turn to serious ones if we do not have right treatment . Health education will help people to have right choices of treatment to recover more quickly . Preventative measures will help improve general health state of all citizens . For example, vaccines will guarantee that pregnant women and their babies are protected from serious infectious diseases such as flu, smallpox, rubella so on . When huge injection campaigns are organized throughout our country, the community's health state will be improved remarkably . As human resources play a key role in the development of a country, investing money to enhance the general health state is a totally right decision . In addition, because the cost of treatment is often much higher than that of prevention, the government can save a lot of money for our country's health budget . In conclusion, I strongly agree that we should give more priority to health education and preventative measures than to treatment . However, reasonable attentions should be paid to treatment so that our citizens are always looked after with best services .