Prevention as fact

Each level has a cost. Level one is the cheapest by an order of magnitude or more. Level three is the most expensive per unit. Level four accumulates across a lifetime. A level-three or level-four intervention that level one could have prevented costs the level-one cost plus the higher cost. Both, not one.

A civilisation that under-resources level one is not saving money. It is paying the level-one cost later, in level-three and level-four form, plus the narrowed bodies the withholding produced.

So the optimal medical architecture resources level one most heavily, and level two next. Level three where it is actually required. Level four where the corridor cannot be widened. Level five at the resolution dignity demands. The empirical literature has been finding this for decades. The structure does not need the finding. It notes that the two converge.

This is not the wellness reading. Wellness puts prevention on the person. The structure puts it on the organism. The person is responsible for what override the person has. The organism is responsible for the conditions override acts within.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

The same page on the420code.org: the420code.org/models/applications/05-medicine-and-the-viability-corridor/