Prevention
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Prevention
is better than repression.
Prevention
begins by curbing trade friction and developing sensible post-crisis monetary and fiscal exit strategies, sooner rather than later.
The IMF focuses on crisis prevention, and in the past decade encouraged greater transparency and stronger financial systems.
The EU’s goals therefore embody an inherent contradiction – energy security versus climate-change
prevention
– which makes it difficult for the EIB to clean up its energy portfolio.
It has been shown, for example, that vaccinated children not only do better at school, but also that, through the
prevention
of damage that can be caused by infectious diseases and resulting nutritional imbalances, they appear to benefit in terms of cognitive development.
And, whereas France ranks higher for some social indicators related to health care, income inequality, and poverty prevention, the price for this performance has been a steady rise in public spending and debt.
A new study, published in February in the journal Health Affairs, suggests that there is another option: in many cases, the medical bills can be preempted by prevention, through the widespread and affordable use of vaccines.
So, when a community gets access to childhood immunization, it is often not long before it also gets access to other services, such as neonatal and maternal care, nutritional supplements, malaria
prevention
measures, and sexual and reproductive health and education.
In the absence of a government-backed national health service or affordable health insurance, routine immunization has a profound financial impact, by saving millions of people from needing health care in the first place, through disease
prevention.
“An ounce of
prevention
is worth a pound of cure” applies with particular force to issues of monetary policy.
Judging from the November meeting of the Governing Council, that “ounce of prevention” appears to be right around the corner for the euro-zone economy.
But reaction is no longer sufficient; today’s most urgent task is
prevention
of crises, armed conflict, and war which may require that the primary response be other than by military means.
Governments must fund mosquito-control and
prevention
programs, from the use of insecticides to the distribution of mosquito nets, as well as public-education campaigns and vaccination initiatives.
The global liberal order’s architects constructed a web of international agreements, trade arrangements, and military alliances to achieve three basic goals: promotion of open trade,
prevention
of catastrophic wars, and discouragement of economic nationalism by replacing a centuries-old zero-sum arrangement with a positive-sum framework under which all participating countries could prosper.
Positive developments include the expansion and adaptation of new IMF lending facilities for crisis
prevention
and management, as well as an increase in the IMF's total resources.
An ounce of
prevention
is certainly desirable, but because nothing can be proved totally safe--at least, not to the standard demanded by many regulators--the precautionary principle has become a self-defeating impediment to the development of new products.
Huge gains in disease control and
prevention
were made last year, and the next few items on my list (11 through 16) reflect progress on specific illnesses.
Iran’s policy toward its western neighbor appears to have two main goals: preservation of influence there, and
prevention
of any spillover of Iraq’s ethnic conflicts into its own multi-ethnic and multi-confessional society.
Genocide
prevention
is a burden that will not be carried unless it is shared.
The world's leaders need to declare
prevention
of genocide not only in the interest of mankind in general, but in their own national interests.
They were asked to examine what could be achieved with extra investments in six key areas:
prevention
of sexual transmission, reduction of non-sexual transmission, treatment of those who have the disease, initiatives to use social policy and health-system strengthening to fight HIV/AIDS, and vaccine research.
The approval is a significant step in the right direction for the
prevention
and control of malaria.
At the summit, the three countries issued a joint statement outlining cooperation on a wide range of issues, including nuclear safety, disaster prevention, economic growth, and the environment.
This led to an unprecedented expansion of
prevention
and treatment services, particularly in developing countries.
It has also contributed to the
prevention
of injustice in contexts far removed from the Balkans.
Treating women carrying BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations with PARP inhibitors to kill cancer cells before they grow into tumors is a new and hopeful concept in cancer
prevention.
Furthermore, public concerns – for example, regarding fire safety or infestation
prevention
– must be addressed, and builders will have to learn new skills.
First, we need to adopt a public health model for
prevention
of violence, spouse abuse, bullying, prejudice, and more that identifies vectors of social disease to be inoculated against.
Peacekeeping and crisis
prevention
are accepted functions of the UN.
Finally, there have been multilateral security dialogues – the ASEAN Regional Forum and now the East Asia Summit the most prominent among them – designed to be vehicles for confidence building, and conflict
prevention
and management.
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