Examples of prevention

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Two prevention strategies have been proposed: chemoprophylaxis and immunoprophylaxis.
The application of these assays to the current prevention strategies will simplify the prevention practice and rationalise the use of antibiotics.
Further insights into these mechanisms could pave the way to new treatments for the prevention of metastasis.
However, until a safe treatment is identified the focus of care must be prevention.
The prevention of preterm labour and delivery is the single most important challenge to modern obstetrics today.
The second is that there is controversy concerning what existing prevention and intervention studies can tell us about the significance of early experience.
Understanding such multifinality is critical to identifying processes underlying different forms of psychopathology and developing appropriate treatment and prevention approaches.
Since the epidemiology of varicella varies worldwide, adopting foreign prevention policies may not always be applicable.
Prevention may depend more on engineering than on medical skills.
While the general principles of pressure ulcers management seems to be wellestablished, controversy exists over specific areas of prevention and treatment.
Perhaps understanding will replace complacency and indifference with prevention and treatment strategies and ultimately reduce the socio-economic burden of this condition.
Noncompliance is multifactorial in cause and prevention, detection and solutions must reflect this.
In this respect they could all be considered as primary stroke prevention studies.
Adverse events due to errors in the medication process are, however, particularly amenable to prevention and these are therefore the primary focus of this review.
Much evidence for stroke prevention comes from the modification of cardiovascular risks, particularly blood-pressure lowering.
All this was especially significant in the patient cohort without prior cerebrovascular disease61 in whom this is therefore regarded as a primary stroke-prevention s tudy.
At the s ame t ime, prevention of social stresses becomes more pressing, and the needs of caregivers become important.
Several strategies are available for the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers.
The database has many assessments in the area of prevention, whereof most are systematic reviews.
Currently, the following benefits are legally included: prevention of disease, screening for disease, diagnostic procedures, treatment of disease, and transportation.
A general literature review revealed more than 1,000 systematic reviews in the general field of disease prevention and control.
In principle, if the word "prevention" appeared in the title of the report, it was included in the analysis.
A protocol was developed to identify reports focused on prevention, as defined in this report.
Prevention is made up of actions aimed at averting the establishment or development of a health problem.
Disabling chronic illness, depressive mood, functional decline, and sedentary lifestyles are among the most important prevention targets.
However, evidence of the benefits of psychosocial and psychological interventions for the prevention of postnatal depression remains rather limited (16).
To summarize, our review of the literature identified four primary clinical effects of guidelines on costs: substitution, appropriate utilization, length of stay, and prevention.
Chickens' diseases are typically objects of prevention, mainly by mechanical distribution of chemicals throughout the entire flock.
The general policy is that prevention programs should meet high standards of effectiveness and efficiency, as well as ethical, legal, and social acceptability.
Furthermore, there is a general perception that there is more prestige involved in treatment than in prevention.
Finally, the report states priorities for research in the field of prevention, including screening.
Commissioning services for the treatment and prevention of coronary heart disease.
In these cases, the prevention of a case of cancer will result in a noncancer case.
Against this background, it is remarkable that research on back pain, particularly research related to prevention, pain relief, and rehabilitation, is relatively limited in scope.
Consequently, prevention is seen as an important area where continued emphasis is needed.
Therefore, each report had to be examined to assure that it was actually on the subject of prevention.
Information is needed on aspects such as outcomes of the intervention, costs, and overall analysis of the relative priorities between prevention and cure.
At these regional levels, no systematic overall prevention and screening policy has been developed.
The filament may therefore have a role in the prevention of polyspermy.
Estimating the extent of clustering might assist in the formulation of disease-prevention strategies in the face of a confirmed case.
The emphasis was firmly placed on prevention rather than reaction, and pointed to the need for partnership working and collaboration between health and educational professionals.
They carried out swamp drainage, malaria diagnosis and treatment, and implemented general hygiene and prevention efforts.
Physical progress may not be impressive, but there may be prevention of further deterioration and psychological benefits.
Technical report : prevention of pneumococcal infections, including the use of pneumococcal conjugate and polysaccharide vaccines and antibiotics prophylaxis.
Predicting the impact of infectious diseases on the well-being of the community is a cornerstone of identifying effective prevention, control and support.
Therefore, the manipulation of mechanisms involved in maintenance of neurofilament phosphorylation is likely to be relevant in the treatment or prevention of axonopathies.
Revised indications for the use of palivizumab and respiratory syncytial virus immune globulin intravenous for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus infection.
In five of the 11 schools studied, medical treatments were applied, followed by a programme of educating the children in the prevention of infection.
If we want to reject the prevention of goodness, we must reject all the versions of satisficing consequentialism discussed so far.
However, through experience, groups have found that individuals are more likely to contribute to prevention than provision.
The identification of factors associated with outbreaks therefore forms an important aspect of prevention.
However, there is as yet a relative paucity of research into effective treatments for delirium, or interventions for delirium prevention.
More specifically, large -parameters could substitute even m-type detection by its prevention of exploitation.
The implications of these emerging data on the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying emotional memory emphasize the particular importance of prevention and early intervention.
Is there support to be drawn from violence prevention for this distinction or similar differentiation among youth engaged in violence and related antisocial behavior?
More generally, there is a great need to capitalize on the potential for research on prevention and intervention strategies to inform developmental theory.
Interaction illustrated for boys in the prevention group from intact families, with all other control variables set to the mean.
The reduction of home hazards was a frequent focus of accident prevention work.
High priority is given to maternal and child health care, and there are several programs for prevention of disease during pregnancy, childbirth, and early childhood.
Other examples come from the municipalities that are assuming more responsibility for prevention, health promotion, and rehabilitation.
Research is needed to evaluate the efficacy of prevention and treatment for postpartum depression.
The dominant aim of medicine is the elimination or prevention of illness.
Prevention of post-spinal hypotension at elective cesarean section by wrapping of the lower limbs.
We included all articles with a primary emphasis on health, such as articles focusing on breast cancer screening or skin cancer prevention.
Studying the cost-effectiveness of prevention does raise some special methodologic problems.
Effective prevention of these problems hinges upon knowledge of early risk factors and pathogenic processes.
We suggest that obesity prevention programs consider assessing depressive symptoms in order to more fully capture the potential risk to adolescent girls.
The economics of having these inmates 'serve all' may outweigh the demands of justice and the public policy concerns related to crime prevention.
However, the ability to change a putative risk or protective factor is an essential precondition for using prevention trials to test theory.
There was little reference to any strategic planning for accident prevention.
Drop-in centres for adolescents: planned to develop existing scheme to include accident prevention.
Prevention of this group of malformations is self-evidently highly desirable.
Eating disorders in young women with type 1 diabetes : prevalence, problems, and prevention.
The reason for including secondary prevention cases is the high clinical signi cance as far as cholesterol treatment is concerned.
Both primary and secondary prevention cases were represented.
A longitudinal prediction model suggests strategies for primary and secondary prevention.
Clinical trials of antibiotics have not shown decisively positive results for either primary or secondary prevention of coronary events.
More recently, cholesterol-lowering especially for secondary prevention of stroke has been identified as a useful intervention.
Risk-factor modification and secondary prevention may have important effects on long-term prognosis.
What is shown in earlier studies is that secondary prevention is cost-effective (12;13).
The two secondary prevention trials (1;10) reporting quality of life have inconsistent findings using a range of measures.
In the final section, we describe ways in which emotioncentered preventions can provide excellent opportunities for research on the development of normal and abnormal behavior.
Implications for targeted preventions to prevent conduct disorder.
Advancing scientific knowledge of our genetic makeup has led to amazing cures and preventions in medicine.
In addition, there is an increasing array of potentially therapeutic interventions, and possibly preventions, including therapy, orthoses, oral pharmaceutical agents and locally-acting agents.
Analogous problems of patrol afflicted the prevention of crime in the countryside.
Comprehensive information systems are required to measure reduction in the incidence and prevalence rates of mental health needs due to developmental/prevention care processes.
The diagonal line suggests three" ideal types" of preventive work, typifying the level of prevention associated with three models of welfare.
As such, household wealth is a good predictor of whether the inhabitants of a household engage in mosquito-prevention activities.
Physicians felt relatively unprepared to deal with underlying factors affecting primary prevention that they perceived to be outside their realm of control.
On the basis that prevention is better than cure, retrospective methods of control should be seen as having a secondary, although not unimportant, role.
However, the primary use of lithium is for the prevention or reduction in intensity of subsequent episodes.
In these cases, prevention might have to be in terms of limiting sales from chemist shops.
Today, in the minds of many, the prevention of war through deterrence is more important than the devising of rules for its conduct or limitation.
They also, however, contribute to fire prevention and play a considerable part in educating the public, especially school children, to become more fire prevention conscious.
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