When assuming a scenario in which children are vaccinated at 6, 8 and 10 months of age, deaths averted fell to 501 (a 18% decrease), while the cost per discounted life-year saved increased to US$5,292 (a 19% increase).
It is also possible that although the sensors alerted, nurses were unable to respond to radio-pagers sufficiently quickly to avert falls and this is supported by findings from a recent U.S. study [ 27] which suggests faster 'nurse call light response time' may contribute to lower fall rates.
While its initial appeals for money to avert the disaster fell on deaf ears, UNICEF programmes in Niger are now almost fully funded.
Second, a large part of the stimulus "spending" was actually aid to state and local governments, intended not to expand spending but to avert a fall — that is, it was about maintaining government, not expanding it.
4– 7 Therefore, it has been suggested that lower limb muscle power (product of muscle force and velocity) may be more influential than lower limb strength when stepping to recover balance and avert a fall after a large postural perturbation.
The CEAC depicts the probability that an intervention is cost-effective at different levels of the cost-effectiveness threshold (in this case, how the probability of cost-effectiveness varies according to how much one is willing to pay to avert one fall) [ 10].
By 2012, the scale up of ARV-PMTCT may avert 24.1% of vertical infections, still falling short of its goal to reduce MTCT by 50%.
The incremental falls averted per person-year was 0.17 (from 2.24 to 2.07 standardised falls rate).
World leaders must go to Copenhagen to avert the "grave danger" of the treaty negotiations falling apart, he argued.
Tepco confirmed that water levels inside the reactors were falling but it was working to maintain them to avert the exposure of nuclear fuel rods.
