We now have an ideal opportunity to invest in cost-effective prevention and intervention programmes with proven track records.
You claim that as a percent that private insurers administrative costs are higher due mainly to the cost of fraud prevention.
In addition, insurance plans are now covering without cost-sharing more prevention-related services for women, such as well-woman visits, breastfeeding support and supplies, and gestational diabetes screening.
It has been suggested that obesity prevention could result in cost savings.
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This work -- building human capacity in countries in turmoil and expanding systems for information sharing -- is the single most cost-effective approach to atrocity prevention when the true objective is sustainable peace.
When comprehensive lifestyle changes are offered as treatment (not just as prevention), significant cost savings occur in the first year because the biological mechanisms that control our health and well-being are so dynamic.
Many will claim that designing data centers for failure prevention and uptime assurance is cost-prohibitive.
Now the government must face the cost of developing a balanced programme of prevention, education and treatment.
Only limited evidence showed that primary prevention with statins may be cost effective and improve patient quality of life.
Boosting adherence, bending the cost curve and shifting from treatment to prevention will require dramatic shifts in patient behavior.
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This trial will not report for seven years, but Dr Montaner hopes the mere likelihood that treatment also prevents transmission will spur governments to redouble their efforts to roll out ARVs and thus obtain a prevention programme at no additional cost.
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Obesity prevention may be an important and cost-effective way of improving public health, but it is not a cure for increasing health expenditures.
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We welcomed the United States announcement of the Innovation in Science through Partners and Regional Engagement (INSPIRE) initiative, which will foster cooperation between U.S. and ASEAN scientists in such areas as pandemic flu monitoring and prevention, development of low-cost vaccines, drug treatment monitoring, health innovation, and disease research.
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Prevention aside, Hevesi's suit cost New York's pension fund by deflating the value of its investments in the banks it sued.
So it is very important, I think, for us to take steps both legislatively but also in the private sector to improve prevention, improve wellness, bend the cost curve.
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How do we get Congress to fund this critical atrocities prevention work in the age of sequesters and cost-cutting measures?
As pressures on public finances and health insurance costs mount, chronic disease risks exemplify how much more cost effective it would be for health institutions, governments and businesses to focus on prevention rather than treatment.
Mr. Culhane said the right to shelter had merits back in the 1980s when advocates fought desperately to rescue people from street homelessness, but now it's parking thousands of families and children in shelter at an enormous cost when, he said, resources could be better spent on housing, support services, and homelessness prevention measures.
Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained.
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