Patients initiating raloxifene may be more likely to have been prescribed therapy for the prevention, rather than the treatment, of osteoporosis as suggested by their younger age relative to those using bisphosphonates as well as being less likely to have had a diagnosis of osteoporosis or fractures in the pre-period.
The main goal of physical therapy treatments in migraine and tension type headache (TTH) patients is the prevention of headache episodes rather than the alleviation of symptoms once an attack has begun [12 14].
U.K. startup Neos is hoping the answer is prevention rather than (just) payouts.
The researchers of the study also discovered that countries where abortion is legal (and the emphasis is on prevention rather than prosecution) experience the most dramatic declines in abortion.
The general public should be concerned with prevention rather than the management of obesity and its sequelae.
The young activist who felt drawn to the AIDS cause after meeting several people living with HIV over the years is optimistically confident that there will be a new generation of young girls who are not afraid to step forward, and be proactive to prevention, rather than reactive.
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.
In fact, even shorn of Soviet aid, Cuba maintains levels of health care unknown to most poor countries; and, rarer still, does so in the countryside as in the cities.The emphasis is on prevention rather than cure.
The first priority should always be prevention rather than cure (Inhorn, 2003).
Studies in the United States show comparable figures [ 2, 3] despite U.S. citizens believing that the greater share of health spending should be earmarked for prevention rather than treatment of disease (1999 Harris Poll, as cited in Corso et al. [ 4]).
