Needlestick and other sharps-related injuries are largely preventable with proper education, training, and the use of safety-engineered devices.
Maternal deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa are largely preventable with health facility delivery assisted by skilled birth attendants.
Death and disability occur predominately among disadvantaged women in resource-poor settings and are largely preventable with adequate delivery care.
UNICEF estimates that around 2 million children die each year from pneumonia and diarrhoea, illnesses which are largely preventable with improvements in water, sanitation and hygiene.
The low proportion of intrapartum stillbirths in high-income countries suggests that intrapartum stillbirths are largely preventable with quality intrapartum care, including prompt recognition and management of intrapartum complications.
Despite being largely preventable with good oral health behaviours (e.g., regular dental visits and tooth brushing and using fluoridated toothpaste) and nutritional habits (e.g., low sugar intake, limited night-time bottle-feeding, no sharing of eating utensils and using fluoridated salt or water), ECC remains one of the most common childhood diseases [ 6, 9– 11].
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is largely preventable and prevention expenditures are relatively low.
Patients newly diagnosed with clinical type 2 diabetes should be made aware that there is an inevitable age-related decline in sight but that further vision loss associated with diabetes is largely preventable through diligent ophthalmological follow up and surgical intervention.
ECC is associated with a high level of morbidity and is largely preventable, however effective culturally appropriate models of care are lacking.
