"We know there are preventable errors and that we should be putting more energy and resources into preventing them," said Dr. Nancy W. Dickey, the immediate past president of the American Medical Association.
Citing her own research into preventing elder financial abuse, she says partners had included Scotland Yard, HSBC and Trading Standards.
But most of its resources seem to go into preventing the worst from happening with fingers crossed.
Now is the time to throw every diplomatic resource into preventing that by brokering a sustainable outcome.
And the paper added that although estrogen clearly prevents bone loss, whether that translates into preventing fractures has not been studied in a large controlled trial.
"Which is why we have to put a lot more effort into preventing homelessness by looking broadly at what draws people into shelter in the first place".
To that end, Ms. Visco argues that the $3 billion spent annually on mammography screening might be better spent on research into preventing or curing breast cancer.
But advocates for improving services to prison and jail inmates said Mr. Horn must put more resources into preventing inmates known to be suicidal from killing themselves.
The experts, appointed by Secretary General Kofi Annan, urged that more effort go into preventing situations from becoming crises -- not waiting for instructions from the Security Council.
For this reason, many local authorities are looking to move the balance of their investment from smoking cessation support into preventing children starting in the first place.
