Sentences with phrase «rather than prevention»

Intervention characteristics associated with more effective outcomes: promoting positive mental health rather than the prevention of mental illness; continuous and long term; whole school approach, focusing on school climate and environment rather than on individual change; opportunities for practice in range of contexts, addressed self - concept, self - esteem and coping skills; combining universal and targeted programmes

Results showed that a predominant promotion, rather than prevention, focus was associated with greater attentiveness to attractive potential dating partners.

Resolution's view is that too much effort has focused on the point of crisis rather than prevention, and the number of people who have no choice but to represent themselves in the family court has risen sharply.

The decrease of symptoms presented here is a treatment rather than prevention effect, although it might prevent the development of full - blown disorder in a longer follow - up.

It is through repair rather than prevention that we generate increased feelings of closeness, safety, and understanding.

Why are we always addressing treatment rather than prevention?

In a life table model, assuming that these observations arose from a causal relation, we estimated the benefits of cessation to be substantial; the benefits on all cause mortality seem likely to be mainly due to reduced progression of cancer rather than prevention of cardiorespiratory disease, but no studies reported cancer specific death rates to confirm this.

«We're really strongly recommending them for treatment rather than prevention,» said Schuchat, stressing that prophylaxis should be reserved for people who are at high risk for severe disease.

Rather, debriefing was viewed as an avenue for lawsuit rather than prevention of such.

Some of the others: lack of political will, and the system's focus on treatment, rather than prevention.

Not exact matches

The company is now focused on becoming the prevention rather than just the cure: Recent acquisition iSight is a cyberintelligence firm that specializes in helping clients anticipate threats.

They suggest that, as an additional prevention, every enterprise consider how to contain, rather than just prevent, a ransomware breach with network segmentation in addition to other strategies.

I also think many efforts at sex education — those built merely around disease and pregnancy prevention rather than human dignity — have hurt people and diminished civil society.

When society supports the terminally ill in committing suicide — by not engaging in suicide prevention for them as we do for other categories of suicidal people, and by legalizing access to lethal means — it sends the insidious message that the lives of the dying are less important and less worth protecting than are those of the healthy, and even that their families (and society) may be better off if they die sooner rather than later.

Therefore, the right to freedom of expression would have to rather focus upon the provision of access to the public expression of opinions than on the prevention of restricting opinions.

It says, «Many pro-life advocacy efforts have focused on the legal status of abortion, rather than addressing prevention of unplanned pregnancy and the needs of pregnant women and families.

«Let food be your medicine,» so said Hippocrates, the father of medicine, and focussed on prevention rather than cure.

The Clarets, however, are a more complicated analytical case, espousing defensive system based around getting bodies in the way of shots rather than outright prevention, a method thus far confounding statistical analysis.

WOODSTOCK — With the shift in efforts of the war on cancer to prevention, rather than cure (Tribune, March 30), information regarding the relationship between reduced risks of breast cancer and breastfeeding should be included in efforts of prevention.

With the shift in efforts of the war on cancer to prevention, rather than cure (Tribune, March 30), information regarding the relationship between reduced risks of breast cancer and breastfeeding should be included in efforts of prevention.

A blood clot that forms inside the deep veins of the legs and pelvis is very difficult to diagnose so it is better to concern yourself with prevention rather than treatment.

Studies were excluded where the intervention (a) was aimed at prevention rather than treatment; (b) was aimed specifically at children, the whole family as a unit or at teachers; or (c) was non-structured, such as an informal support group or unstructured home visits.

For decades (or longer) there has been much complacency and outright acceptance about miscarriage, stillbirth and even neonatal death (though there have been some premature prevention campaigns), rather than outrage which should have led to decades of research by now.

Well, looking at the 10 steps I failed at: — # 6 nothing other than breast milk (gave hungry baby formula b / c I was too tired and drugged up to nurse more than 5 minutes)-- # 7 rooming in (being tired and drugged up I actually wanted to sleep)-- # 9 no pacifiers (I would rather baby have the SIDS prevention and soothing that comes from sucking)-- # 4 initiate breastfeeding within 30 minutes of birth (that C - section thing where they sliced my guts open interfered with that timing)-- # 10 I was referred to the support group but sure as hell didn't go (because I deemed healing at home from my surgery more important than being browbeaten about how I was feeding my baby).

Education, counseling, support, skilled assessment of your progress, and both physical and emotional health are key aspects of gentle, comprehensive midwifery care, with focus on prevention rather than intervention.

The fathers of the control group were also offered a face - to - face 40 - minute training session about child care, such as accident prevention and vaccination, but discussion was focused on the health benefits of breast milk rather than the management of breastfeeding.

Rather than look at conflict resolution, the parties concerned and the international community as a whole should concentrate on crisis prevention.

Cuomo's proposal, which the SUNY Board of Trustees adopted at his urging last Thursday and which he hopes to codify in state law, deals largely with encouraging reporting and improving prevention strategies rather than reforming colleges» investigative and disciplinary strategies.

«You actually really invest in the prevention rather than paying for the problem once it manifests itself, because it's too late.»

The recommendations cover a wide swath of the epidemic and echo the refrain that curbing drug abuse requires more than a law enforcement approach, but rather a four - pronged strategy that also addresses prevention, treatment and recovery.

DASA is unique in that it focuses on education and the prevention of bullying and harassment before they begin rather than punishment after the fact.

«In order to reduce the burden on our healthcare system, Nigeria must begin to push for preventive strategies to curb the spread of diseases, any healthcare reform in Nigeria must start with an emphasis on prevention, rather than cure,» he said.

So we have to make sure that we put the investment where it's needed, which is in prevention, rather than cure.

I believe in educaton, prevention and treatment rather than immediate criminal prosecution especially on bogus allegations that are used as tactics in Family and Divorce Courts in NYC.

«Poor adherence with the Canadian pregnancy prevention guidelines means that Canada, inadvertently, is using pregnancy termination rather than pregnancy prevention to manage fetal risk from isotretinoin,» states lead author Dr. David Henry, senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and executive co-lead of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES).

«Aspirin use remains an attractive cancer - prevention option, due to the fact that most people will be more likely to take a pill rather than make major lifestyle modifications such as quitting smoking, eating a healthy diet and engaging in physical activity.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

«With a virus, you have to go with prevention rather than a cure,» she said, pointing to her main target — wheat streak mosaic virus.

This research should help with a cancer prevention strategy, rather than waiting to treat the cancer once it arrives.»

Alwan says that the most important point is that the document and the preparations for the high - level meeting, which includes heads of state rather than just health ministers, have succeeded in raising political awareness of NCDs and «elevating NCD prevention from a health priority to a development priority.

«Combination HIV prevention» (a package of interventions taking into account both the individual and the socio - economic context) remains a must in the fight against AIDS, even at a time where the disease has become chronic rather than fatal.

«Since the slight decrease in cancer mortality largely reflects changing incidence or earlier detection, rather than improved therapy, the logical next step, we believe, would be to shift more resources into an arena where we have proved that they make a difference and concentrate our efforts on prevention and early detection of cancer,» says Bailar.

Nor did the first drug for «prevention» — rather than treatment — immediately alter the landscape.

There are many studies that suggest most of the benefits of fiber — reduced cholesterol, improved bowel movements, reduced risk of cancer, diabetes prevention, etc — are bought about by soluble fiber in vegetables, rather than the insoluble fiber you find in whole - grains.

All the more reason why we need more ND's who are classical naturopaths who work with their clients to educate them on wellness and prevention while they are healthy rather than expect the ones in mainstream medicine who get paid when you are sick to tell you how to prevent disease.

It's an entire medical speciality dedicated to finding and treating underlying causes and prevention of serious chronic disease rather than disease symptoms.

It's a whole medical specialty dedicated to finding and treating underlying causes and prevention of serious chronic disease rather than disease symptoms.

It's an entire medical specialty dedicated to finding and treating underlying causes and prevention of serious chronic diseases, rather than disease symptoms.

For prevention, be ruled by caution rather than fear.

It stresses health maintenance, disease prevention, patient education, and patient responsibilities and emphasizes the treatment of the whole person rather than just treating the disease.