Prevention, prevention and prevention [PDF]
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]
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+5 more
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Bulk-preventing actions for SU(N) gauge theories [PDF]
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.
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Data-Driven Allocation of Preventive Care With Application to Diabetes Mellitus Type II [PDF]
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 ...
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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]
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+11 more
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Prevention and Precaution [PDF]
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+2 more
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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+10 more
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Zika virus: New clinical syndromes and its emergence in the western hemisphere [PDF]
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+9 more
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Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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]
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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