"We need preventive medicine.
Last year, only one in 12 mothers-to-be who needed preventive medication in Mozambique received it, the Ministry of Health said.
"We need preventive measures, rather than a Disaster Management Cell, when we know [flooding] is an extreme event we're prone to," says Rishi Aggarwal, an environmental activist involved in urban planning and mangrove conservation.
Public health, the Cinderella of the health service, is being recognised for what it is, the essential source of crucially needed preventive medicine, and is moving to the centre of health strategy.
Second, he says, children who have more than one headache a week may need preventive therapy, like low doses of antidepressants or anti-seizure drugs that have been shown to prevent adult migraines.
THERE is growing awareness that prevention is the best way to fight domestic violence, and that teenagers, in particular, need preventive services, said Lisi Lord, an assistant executive director of My Sisters Placee, a White Plains-based agency that runs programs to help battered women.
None of the subjects who needed preventive treatment agreed to take preventive treatment.
Even if many chronic migraineurs need preventive treatments, there are well-done trials only for topiramate [3, 4].
However, 8/10 patients (80 %) still need preventive medications but only 5/10 (50 %) are still stimulated (two are episodic and three chronic).
