Public health policy that directly influences health promotion and disease prevention has become an extremely effective and necessary policy worldwide. Health promotion and prevention are closely linked, since prevention comes before the promotion. Promoting health means informing the population, distributing fundamental tools in terms of care, hygiene (one of the greatest determinants of health nowadays). When the population is equipped with these tools, it becomes capable of preventing disease. This has a relevant economic impact, since disease prevention reduces the prevalence and frequency of disease in populations, reducing the use of government resources. The impact this brings to the private parties is precisely the reduction of the frequency of diseases and the search for medical care in public systems, sometimes making unnecessary an increase of privatization of health sectors, since public systems will not be so saturated. The above-mentioned economic beneficial impact is the major reason why the government should always support this type of policy.
