Moreover, there are differences between community and governmental perspectives in WTP for preventive interventions in comparison with curative programs.
The respective Ministers of Health and more specifically the Health Care Insurance Board have been using health technology assessment (and cost-effectiveness information) since the middle 1980s as a tool for deciding on large public programs (e.g., national cancer screening programs) and on the addition of expensive curative programs (e.g., transplant programs) to the package [ 5].
Recording, documentation and database storage need to be addressed to provide more complete and comprehensive information for the development of preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative programs for sexual violence.
Such high-risk family members should be offered screening programs for the early detection and potentially curative operative treatment of pancreatic cancer [ 86], as it has been shown that it can be effective [ 87, 88].
The latter could be designed as cross-functional teams and mobile organization promoting early discharge and/or clinical programs for optimal coordination of key skills including preventive, curative, rehabilitative and social support of disability.
In the absence of a national policy to steer programs for NCDs, current emphasis focuses more on the curative rather than preventive and promotive aspects.
Curative therapy is only applicable to patients diagnosed at early stages of disease, emphasizing the importance of screening programs for at-risk patients.
This again illustrates that it is critical to implement HBV screening, surveillance, and treatment programs for Asian Americans to ensure that if HCC develops, it will be detected early, when curative therapy options are still available.
In spite of the surveillance programs for HCC, most patients are diagnosed at the intermediate or advanced stages for which there is no curative therapy, resulting in a dismal prognosis.
Programs for the poor are poor programs.
