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Prevention, prevention and prevention [PDF]

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2019
A recent study by Levy et al. presents the dental treatment needs of a large sample of combat soldiers. They found that 80% need some dental care.It is unfortunate that so many, educated, otherwise healthy young adults are in need of dental care and it indicates that more prevention of dental disease is needed.In last years, the Ministry of Health ...
Shlomo Paul Zusman
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A method for assessing the success and failure of community-level interventions in the presence of network diffusion, social reinforcement, and related social effects [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
Prevention and intervention work done within community settings often face unique analytic challenges for rigorous evaluations. Since community prevention work (often geographically isolated) cannot be controlled in the same way other prevention programs and these communities have an increased level of interpersonal interactions, rigorous evaluations ...
Dombrowski, Kirk, Gauthier, G. Robin, Ivanich, Jerreed D., Khan, Bilal, Lee, Hsuan-Wei, Wexler, Lisa   +5 more
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Bulk-preventing actions for SU(N) gauge theories [PDF]

Phys. Rev. D 108, 114511 (2023), 2023
Lattice gauge field theories may suffer from unphysical "bulk" phase transitions at strong lattice gauge coupling. We introduce a one-parameter family of lattice SU(N) gauge actions which, when used in combination with an HMC update algorithm, prevents the appearance of the bulk phase transition.
arxiv   +1 more source

Data-Driven Allocation of Preventive Care With Application to Diabetes Mellitus Type II [PDF]

, 2023
Problem Definition. Increasing costs of healthcare highlight the importance of effective disease prevention. However, decision models for allocating preventive care are lacking. Methodology/Results. In this paper, we develop a data-driven decision model for determining a cost-effective allocation of preventive treatments to patients at risk ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Monitoring response to hepatitis B and C in EU/EEA: testing policies, availability of data on care cascade and chronic viral hepatitis-related mortality – results from two surveys (2016) [PDF]

, 2018
Objectives: The World Health Organization (WHO) developed a European Regional Action Plan (EAP) to fast-track action towards the goal of eliminating viral hepatitis. Robust monitoring is essential to assess national programme performance.
De Brujin, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Iyengar, World Health Organisation, World Health Organisation, World Health Organisation   +11 more
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Prevention and Precaution [PDF]

, 2013
This chapter surveys the economic literature on prevention and precaution. Prevention refers as either a self-protection activity—i.e. a reduction in the probability of a loss—or a self-insurance activity—i.e. a reduction of the loss. Precaution is defined as a prudent and temporary activity when the risk is imperfectly known.
Courbage, Christophe, Rey, Béatrice, Treich, Nicolas   +2 more
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Epidemiology, causes, clinical manifestation and diagnosis, prevention and control of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during the early outbreak period: a scoping review

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2020
Background The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China beginning in December 2019.
S. P. Adhikari, S. Meng, Yuju Wu, Yu-Ping Mao, R. Ye, Qingzhi Wang, Chang Sun, S. Sylvia, S. Rozelle, H. Raat, Huan Zhou   +10 more
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Zika virus: New clinical syndromes and its emergence in the western hemisphere [PDF]

, 2016
Zika virus (ZIKV) had remained a relatively obscure flavivirus until a recent series of outbreaks accompanied by unexpectedly severe clinical complications brought this virus into the spotlight as causing an infection of global public health concern.
Brazilian Medical Genetics Society–Zika Embryopathy Task Force, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Collaborative Cross Consortium, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Helen M. Lazear, Michael S. Diamond, T. C. Pierson   +9 more
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Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

The Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2021
This document presents a comprehensive strategy for dealing with serious, violent, and chronic juvenile offenders developed by the United States Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. It notes that the program described can be implemented
Caitlin M. Brady, Jennifer H. Peck
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Mechanisms of atrocity prevention policy brief on gender mainstreaming [PDF]

, 2021
The purpose of this brief is to provide recommendations on how to approach the possibilities of gender mainstreaming when gender identities are nonbinary. This brief also gives an overview of gender mainstreaming issues when it comes to downstream phases
DeAngelo, Darcie
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