Research Paper on:
Society's Mission and the Concept of Prevention

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Based upon theories of productivity, it is not the least bit shocking to find that many contemporary societies still reflect incredible amounts of poverty, disease and homelessness in spite of  the fact that their resources are fully capable of feeding, clothing, housing, educating and medicinally caring for their suffering masses. Examining the potential for prevention, Paul Robart Loebs Values,  Work, and Family, Jo Goodwin Parkers What is Poverty? and Smith & Moyers Healing and the Community help to provide answers to a troublesome concern.  One might readily surmise that the primary objective of a health care delivery system is to provide all citizens with the same access to health care services, not  merely single out certain social classes based upon their location and ability to afford said care. The interview between Smith and Moyers clearly illustrates the extent to which centralized  health clinics offer little in the way of medical help to those who actually need it the most. "First of all, were not even taught how to function in  that environment. Were taught in a centralized, mechanized, medical model, not a health model. We dont look at the entire spectrum of health care approaches, including prevention and  rehabilitation" (Smith & Moyers 311). Smith and Moyers point out why the United States health care market is referred to as "imperfect," inasmuch as it does not allow for  all people to take advantage of medical services -- only those who are either covered through employers or can afford their own private policies.  The major players in the United States health services system are not the sick and injured, but rather the physicians, health service institution administrators, insurance companies, large employers and