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Moonshot Redux to Focus on Prevention, Screening
Cancer Discovery, 2022Abstract President Joe Biden relaunched his Cancer Moonshot initiative, placing an emphasis on screening, early detection, and prevention. The plan calls for a 50% reduction in death rates from cancer over the next 25 years—but it does not include any new research funding to help achieve that goal.
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Is dementia preventable? Focus on Alzheimer’s disease
Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2010The prevention of dementia, and particularly of Alzheimer's disease, is a major challenge for researchers and clinicians. In this article, the mixture of evidence, observations and hypotheses in the current literature is categorized into four avenues for possible preventive interventions, as suggested by the NIH State-of-the-Science Conference.
Yoram, Barak, Dov, Aizenberg
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Preventing Adverse Outcomes: A Population Focus
Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 1999This article discusses the concept of risk from an epidemiological viewpoint as well as that of vulnerable populations. Three components of resource availability are pertinent to the concept of risk of a population: social status, social capital, and human capital.
N E, Ervin, L L, Nelson, L, Sheaff
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Children Australia, 1988
What we are discussing is the notion of prevention as directed toward families. The idea is to prevent the break-up of families in our community which is costly both in economic and social terms … but, as I hope to demonstrate, there is more to it than that.Let me also say that the notion of prevention, both in theoretical and conceptual terms as well ...
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What we are discussing is the notion of prevention as directed toward families. The idea is to prevent the break-up of families in our community which is costly both in economic and social terms … but, as I hope to demonstrate, there is more to it than that.Let me also say that the notion of prevention, both in theoretical and conceptual terms as well ...
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2020
Developing countries are at much higher risk of going bankrupt if diabetes or diabetes complications are not prevented. In the most affected developing countries diabetes has to be brought up very high on the political agenda, otherwise it would not be possible to provide the required resources to implement nationwide policies.
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Developing countries are at much higher risk of going bankrupt if diabetes or diabetes complications are not prevented. In the most affected developing countries diabetes has to be brought up very high on the political agenda, otherwise it would not be possible to provide the required resources to implement nationwide policies.
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Deformational Plagiocephaly—A Focus on Prevention
The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 2017Abstract Deformational plagiocephaly is a common issue in primary care. It is crucial that providers are familiar with recommendations for the diagnosis and management of DP. In this article we provide an overview of literature related to epidemiology, risk factors, clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, history and physical, diagnostics ...
Sarah Unwin, Cheryl Dika
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Prevention of Breast Cancer: Focus on Chemoprevention
1998Present prospects of breast cancer prevention are being developed in three main areas: (a) genetics, to understand the real importance of familial breast cancer and genetic testing; (b) lifestyle, to study various risk factors, including delayed first pregnancies and smaller number of pregnancies, and months of breast feeding; (c) chemoprevention, to ...
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The Canadian nurse, 1976
Cardiovascular disease in Canada is estimated to cost over $1.2 billion each year. Advances made in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases have decreased the mortality rate associated with them, but the incidence of such diseases may nonetheless be termed epidemic.
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Cardiovascular disease in Canada is estimated to cost over $1.2 billion each year. Advances made in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases have decreased the mortality rate associated with them, but the incidence of such diseases may nonetheless be termed epidemic.
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Resilience as a focus of suicide research and prevention
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2019Suicide is a major medical and social problem. Decades of suicide research have mostly focused on risk factors for suicidal behaviour while overlooking protective factors such as resilience that may help to address this important public health issue.
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Policy Direction: Focus on Prevention
2017Child physical abuse is a complex clinical phenomenon. There are multiple child, parental and community factors that interact to contribute to child maltreatment including child physical abuse. The ecological model of child maltreatment involves interacting factors between the child, family, community and society that modify each other over time ...
Tanya S. Hinds, Angelo P. Giardino
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