Interventions to reduce progression to disease may include preventive treatment with anti-TB drugs, a new vaccine that prevents progression from infection to disease, as well as reducing exposure to various social, environmental, and biological risk factors for TB".
Although the evidence base remains in its infancy, environmental issues are also considerations, such as reducing exposure to pollution (air, water, noise, and chemicals) and increasing time spent in nature, and are areas of current investigation.
The agreement offers broad suggestions such as reducing exposures by improving occupational safety, developing better responses to spills and accidents, and eliminating child labor involving chemicals.
When we work together, everyone plays an important role in implementing public health strategies that can reduce the use of tobacco among kids and teens, as well as reduce exposure to secondhand smoke.
And, as such, we have learned from the post-Katrina experience that effective asthma management must go beyond traditional medical care to include steps to educate and assist patients in managing this condition as well as reduce exposure to the specific environmental triggers known to exacerbate the problem.
The navigation systems already available on the market should reduce malpositioning as well as reduce exposure of the operator, staff, and patients to radiation.
Previously, we demonstrated that persons with clinical liver disease often decrease their dietary intake as well as reduce exposure to risk factors suspected to be associated with the disease (Kirk et al. 2005); therefore, lifetime rather than 2-month groundnut intake was considered the primary dietary exposure variable.
Caring for patients with SLE includes commonsense measures such as timely vaccinations, reducing exposure to contagious contacts, screening for latent infections such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, minimizing exposure to corticosteroids, and targeted re-activation and infection prophylaxis for high risk patients.
The consistent finding of an association between allergic sensitization and childhood asthma raises the question as to whether reducing exposure to allergens early in life can reduce the risk of subsequent development of sensitization and/or symptoms of allergic disease.
This study was conducted in Ibadan, South Western Nigeria in 2004, as part of the Reducing Exposure of Children to Lead Study (RECLES) of the University of Ibadan.
As such, preventing or reducing exposure to job stressors and improving the psychosocial quality of work could prevent a substantial proportion of common mental health problems.
