In the case study, for example, the three groups of participants may have over-reported their preparedness in order to avoid embarrassment or judgement.
Mothers' awareness on the recommended feeding, nutrition, hygiene, household environment, and mothers' birth preparedness and efforts to avoid untreated diseases results in improved health of the mothers, which in turn lowers neonatal mortality rates.
OFFICIALS on Long Island are reviewing local storm-preparedness plans, hoping to avoid a debacle similar to the one in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Preparedness for surprises is necessary to avoid situations without any prophylactic – or even preventive!
As the heat wave condition has been associated with the drinking water shortages and severe drought situations in these states, UNICEF support has to be in terms of emergency preparedness through wider dissemination of practices to avoid heat strokes.
Items on the questionnaire were periodically changed to avoid predictability and minimize respondent preparedness.
Health and Nutrition: Preparedness for meningitis epidemics is vital for the region to avoid the occurrence of a large outbreak and its spreading to other countries.
The disaster indicated a need for enforceable international standards for environmental safety, preventative strategies to avoid similar accidents and industrial disaster preparedness.
Therefore, we seek to of families, communities and institutions to protect people and their livelihoods, through measures to avoid (prevention) or limit (mitigation and preparedness) the adverse effects of hazards and to provide timely and reliable hazard forecasts.
Good preparedness also includes the identification of ash disposal sites, before ash fall occurs, to avoid further movement of ash and to aid clean-up.
