德莫斯研究所：2024年计算重要事项：如何分类、核算和跟踪预防支出报告（英文版）

One of the challenges for elevating prevention within public spending are the definitional complexities. A recent paper by the Institute for Government said it would not have a “neat definition of prevention - we do not think there is one. There is not an obvious objective way of distinguishing between acute and preventative services, policies and programmes”.3 In this paper, we take the working definition of prevention as being related to activities or investments that increase the resilienc