Hi katisss,

I'm also an IELTS taker, I'd like to offer some observation here, hope you wounldn't mind. And please correct me if I was wrong. For this topic, since both prevention and treatment are important, I'd mention merits for both views and say which one I'd prefer.

Being healthy is critical for all human’shumans' wellbeing. Some people advocate devoting more of a nation’s health budget to prevention while others think that it the money is wellbetter spent on treatment and research intofor curing diseases. In my opinion，there are limitations to what prevention can achieveprevention cannot be used as a complete solution to keep people healthy and i would therefore argue that treatment should not be neglected.

To begin, humans do not always act rationally, even if they are well informed and educated about the consequences of their actions. Maybe they can not find thedo not have enough time to exercise even if they know it would be beneficial for their health. AnotherFor example, is people continue to smoke despite being aware of the adverse effect on their health(I think you have to write more about this).

Another point is that not every illness can be prevented. People get(get is a bit oral english)are hurt in  accidents or infected by others. There are also diseases that are inheritedhereditary in some families. In these cases prevention is irrelevantuseless or can only help with early diagnostics.

Lastly, in the last two centuries major advancements in medical research were madethere were major medical breakthroughs/advances in the last two centuries. Cures were developed for the majority of severe diseases. If the budget for treatment and medical research was cut and more money went to preventionback to allow for more prevention, we can not keep the same pace of progress.

All things considered, health is too important to neglect any measure to stay and become healthy(I don't quite understand this sentence). We can only overcome diseases with a bundle of measures: prevention, testing, immunization, treatment and research. Prevention is a useful weapon in this battle but not the only one it is by no means a substitute of medical treatment.

I also post my essay as below, hope you can help correct it, thanks.

It is highly fashionable in some circles to argue that more money in health budget should be spent on preventing diseases rather than curing them. While I understand that medical treatment is of crucial importance in terms of curing ailments and keeping people healthy, I firmly believe that health education and preventative actions are more cost-effective and advantageous.

To start with, preventative measures, such as regular exercise, can help people cultivate healthy lifestyles and stay away from diseases. For example, many children become overweight or even obese because of the lack of exercise and over consumption of junk food, such as hamburgers. If they play sports often, chances are that they will lose weight or avoid diabetes. Clearly, this will save much money and pain compared to seeing doctors when their health is deteriorating.

In addition to this, health education and propaganda can largely improve people's health conditions by educating people to avoid diseases. An apt illustration is that AIDS, an incurable disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year, transmits via sexual intercourse and contaminated injection. If every individual is well aware of the serious consequences of catching HIV virus, then they will become much more prudent and cautious when facing various attractions. As this shows, it makes more sense to prevent diseases than curing it as some of them cannot be defeated.

However, this is not to say that medical treatment should be ignored. This is because some diseases, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, runs in some families. There is simply no way to escape them. But if people already know that the chance they catch certain disease is much higher than others, then it is still of great help if they can take some actions to prevent it or at least ease it. So, they do not need to wait all the symptoms appearing and suffering.

In conclusion, medical treatment and research cannot be neglected as this is the last resort to save people's lives. But preventing diseases from happening in the first place is more effective, as people will not go through all the pain and suffering.