Unfortunately, resources are disproportionately channelled toward punitive-corrections policies to the exclusion of effective prevention and intervention programmes.
And physicians need to talk to their young patients about STIs, risk behaviors and effective prevention methods.
We now have an ideal opportunity to invest in cost-effective prevention and intervention programmes with proven track records.
Yet New Guinea's awkward geography, poor infrastructure and myriad ethnic divisions make it difficult to mount an effective prevention campaign.
The second event, hosted by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations during the annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women, focused on effective prevention and responses to intimate partner violence.
Our results suggest that elderly women with AF may need to be targeted for more effective stroke prevention therapy.
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.
FORBES: Alcohol, Obesity and Smoking Do Not Cost Health Care Systems Money
The aim of enhancing research to develop effective treatment and prevention of dementia by 2025 will get the most attention.
Nobody has yet produced an effective copy-prevention system but this will change.
"An effective, treaty-based arms control and disarmament regime must be preserved and expanded, including effective and verifiable prevention of proliferation" of nuclear weapons, said Joschka Fischer.
"We would expect that to lead to more people getting acupuncture, but given there is good evidence to show this is effective for the prevention of both tension-type and migraine-type headaches then that is a good thing because people are getting access to an effective treatment, " Prof Martin Underwood said.
Overzealous and effective theft detection and prevention creates an atmosphere that is likely to intimidate innocent customers.
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.
The principal aim of the grant is to evaluate the molecular mechanisms and underlying pathways of tissue engineering and cell therapy for regenerating airways and lung tissue, and to carry out translational studies for the prevention and effective treatment of a wide range of diseases.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, there have been significant reductions in mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the U.S. Research has also shown that progress is possible through targeted prevention programs that are effective in reducing risky behaviors among HIV-positive and HIV-negative women.
This Trust would set national priorities for prevention, employ innovative and effective systems for delivering them and align payments with priorities.
Only limited evidence showed that primary prevention with statins may be cost effective and improve patient quality of life.
Over and over again, people made the connection between housing and HIV prevention, and between housing and effective HIV treatment.
He has been more moderate in his approach, stressing that treatment and prevention are essential components of an effective strategy.
The CDC has resources for schools and communities to develop "bystander prevention programs, " which teach effective strategies youth can use to prevent violence among their peers.
Dr Walter Atwood, a virologist based at Brown University who worked on the study, said the drugs may prove to be an effective, ready-made therapy for PML prevention or treatment.
However the measure has come under fire from penal reformers who claim the money spent locking up offenders would be more effective in cutting crime if spent on crime prevention measures.
Obesity prevention may be an important and cost-effective way of improving public health, but it is not a cure for increasing health expenditures.
FORBES: Alcohol, Obesity and Smoking Do Not Cost Health Care Systems Money
This year, a year in which the vaccine is supposed to be a good match to the virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates the vaccine is only 62% effective.
In fact, it's about 62% effective, said the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Thomas Frieden, on Friday.
And some scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention think it's possible that even this less effective vaccine may have lessened symptoms.
It is also important to increase access to female-controlled prevention methods, such as the female condom, and to develop effective microbicides and vaccines.
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.
Only through continued support and participation of communities and individual trial volunteers will we achieve the goal of identifying a safe and effective preventive vaccine, which would be an invaluable addition to the tool box of prevention approaches.
He said stricter standards have proved to be cost-effective, particularly along the Gulf Coast where there has been a demonstrable difference between buildings that took stricter flood prevention measures after Hurricane Katrina and those that didn't.
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