A few years ago, a suicide-prevention group, Lifelink, conducted a minute analysis of suicide in Japan: it was necessary to make strategies of prevention more precise, Lifelink believed — to know exactly who was committing suicide, in which streets, in which buildings, by what methods, and at which times of the day, as though with enough factors in place you could almost catch someone in the act.
Ultimately, evidence is needed to inform new guidelines that offer more precise recommendations on primary prevention for older people.
The evaluation was initiated by UNICEF in the last year of programme cycle with the aim of more precise programming of HIV prevention in the new country programme (2005-2009).
Used in conjunction with biological surveillance, behavioural surveillance provides data allowing for a more precise definition of HIV/STI prevention strategies.
The European Science Foundation ESFF) has initiated a 'Forward Look' campaign that should deliver "more precise medicine for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease" for the European citizen [2].
The identification of genetic variants that increase risk for T2D has led to the hypothesis that risk prediction and treatment could become more precise by including genomic factors in risk assessment, management, and prevention strategies.
Vaccine, microbicide, pre exposure prophylaxis or other potential HIV prevention or intervention studies would benefit from using more precise and recent comparison of incidences through the estimation of incidence rate ratios derived from cross-sectional surveys.
Accounting for these issues should allow for a more precise delineation of spatial risk patterns and for improved targeting of limited prevention resources earlier in the transmission season.
This would possibly enable an even more precise individual risk assessment and therefore facilitate a truly personalized strategy for prevention of breast and prostate cancers in the population.
A more precise estimate of the role of atopy and smoking in occupational asthma may provide arguments towards more specific prevention strategies.
