Summary
Prevention Institute, Trust for America's Health, Urban Institute, New York Academy of Medicine, The California Endowment, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that:
- Small investments in community-level prevention have substantial returns
- Prevention can produce significant health care savings nationally and in every state
- The savings from investment in prevention accrue to both public and private health care payers
- Investing in prevention has a multiplier effect-multiple saving for multiple conditions
- Focusing prevention investments on communities with the most compromised health status could potentially lead to even greater returns