It is both predictable and preventable and it is time to do something about it.
But insurance alone is insufficient to tackle our chronic and preventable disease epidemic.
We need to take collective responsibility for our part in predictable and preventable events that affect the lives of others.
Of course to increase access to health care, we must reduce the cost, both in dollars and preventable injuries and deaths.
Even as young adults, ages 25-34, mortality remains consistently upsetting and preventable.
Brendan McPherson, 7th Coast Guard District chief of response enforcement, said it was a "tragic and preventable loss of life, " in a statement Tuesday.
While serving out the sentence for their crimes, prisoners should not be forced to suffer from treatable and preventable illnesses without receiving appropriate medical care.
But if the world keeps the promises that it has made to itself to really fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, then nothing is impossible.
Every organization includes a mix of inevitable and preventable complexity.
Again, most of this was foreseeable and preventable.
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The death was foreseeable and preventable.
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Instead, the authors point to high rates of obesity, tobacco use, and other preventable risk factors for an early death as the leading drivers of the gap between the US and other nations.
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He said there were also "major areas of challenge" including disappointing breast feeding rates, large variations in preventable tooth decay in children, high death rates from lung diseases and a large amount of preventable cancers and cardiovascular disease.
Every year, nearly half a million women lose their lives to this terrible, treatable, and often preventable, disease.
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Meanwhile, Mississippi scored at or near the bottom on 11 of the 22 survey measures, showing a high prevalence of obesity, high rate of childhood poverty, low high school graduation rates, limited availability of primary care physicians and many preventable hospitalizations.
And it turns out -- we were just talking about the budget -- about a third of our increase in health care cost is directly attributable to obesity and illnesses like diabetes that are entirely preventable and curable if folks got back into the same habits that our parents and our grandparents had.
Lastly, the Wellness Trust would make prevention like national security and environmental policies: pervasive and persistent in its protection of our nation from purely preventable illness and death.
"Almost all newborn deaths originate from preventable and treatable causes, " the report authors write.
This is a key element in the progression of chronic disease, and it is, by and large, preventable.
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Fortunately, these days heartburn is preventable and easily treatable--assuming the sufferer is willing to take the necessary steps.
The sequelea of illnesses, resulting from a higher than normal BMI, are preventable and are controlled by the individual.
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However, most dental disease is preventable and many of the findings in this detailed report reinforce key existing oral health promotion messages.
An inquiry into the crash of the Nimrod three years ago found that it was caused by a fuel leak and was "preventable".
Millions of lives are lost needlessly every year from easily preventable and treatable diseases across sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organization.
But since all risk is terrifying, and even one preventable death is too many, there are not many intact fingernails left around this place.
In Laos, one in 11 children die before the age of five, the majority from preventable and treatable conditions such as malaria, pneumonia and measles.
The first two are desirable, within parameters, and the third preventable.
It's a tragic disease because it's preventable and treatable.
The plan also provides greater assurance to donors that efforts to end polio will have a broader impact than just protecting children from this preventable and debilitating disease by eradicating it forever.
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