TY - JOUR PY - 1992// TI - Estimated national spending on prevention--United States, 1988 JO - MMWR: Morbidity and mortality weekly report A1 - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA, SP - 529 EP - 531 VL - 41 IS - 29 N2 - Despite the overall health improvements achieved through preventive interventions, the United States continues to be burdened by preventable illness, injury, and disability. For example, annual health-care expenditures for cardiovascular disease alone exceed $135 billion and injury and disability, $170 billion . This report summarizes the findings of a study to estimate national funding for health promotion and disease prevention in the United States during 1988. LA - en SN - 0149-2195 UR - http://dx.doi.org/ ID - ref1 ER -