These findings highlight the important intersection of criminal justice and public health priorities: targeting modifiable, health-related factors during and after the transition from prison to community may have the potential to simultaneously improve both health and public safety.
Therefore, given these detrimental outcomes, controlling known modifiable factors should be a priority.
Because reducing disparities in diabetes is a public health priority (2), identifying modifiable mechanisms linking vulnerability to poor health outcomes is an important research goal.
The five broad domains, and their 11 subdomains, are described as both high-priority and locally modifiable in a short to medium timeframe [ 10].
Finally, it is very important to focus on elements that are considered severe or high-priority and most modifiable by the target population because they are more likely to lead to behavioral change [ 40].
Prudent precautionary principles suggest that reducing exposure to avoidable or modifiable risk factors should receive high priority from the public and private sectors.
To improve these poor outcomes, the identification of potentially modifiable determinants of mortality is an urgent priority.
Despite that most attention on current prevention guidelines has focused on the indications for lipid lowering treatment, adequate control of the main modifiable causes of stroke hypertension and smoking 34 should remain top priorities for clinicians and policy makers to reduce the population burden of cerebrovascular disease.
Because the morbidity and mortality from adult asthma have been increasing, the identification of modifiable environmental exposures that exacerbate asthma has become a priority.
Understanding modifiable causes of these elusive and deadly cancers remains a priority for the research community.
When considering the public health importance of an exposure, priority should be given to exposures that are modifiable and prevalent in the population and have been hypothesized to be associated with development of asthma.
