The number one priority for social care at the moment is making the sector sustainable, followed closely second by making preventative children's services work.
For three years she was the government affairs director at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, working on preventative healthcare, child nutrition, medical research and training policy, and helped to found the Congressional Staff Vegetarian Association, dubbed 'The Veggie Caucus.'.
"From everything that we are seeing, girls' education is the single biggest preventative to ending child marriage.
In addition to preventing primary and secondary stroke in children, preventative transfusion programmes decrease the frequency of total hospitalisations, vasoocclusive events, acute chest syndrome and growth failure (Vichinsky et al, 2005).
By funding preventative care for children, CHIP helps parents avoid missing work to take care of sick children.
In Australia, publicly funded, universal health services are available to all pregnant women, children and their families and include pregnancy and birth care, parenting support, developmental monitoring of children, preventative health (e.g. immunisation) and health promotion (e.g. breastfeeding) [ 10].
"Preventative mechanisms help children stop aggressive behaviors before they get inbred and require costly correction".
"We are extremely worried about the fact that many schools continue to refuse to engage in preventative activity with children at risk of forced marriage," the MPs said.
There is some evidence that cash transfers positively affect access to and utilisation of health care (Bastagli et al. 2016; Lagarde et al. 2009; Arnold et al. 2011), particularly preventative services for children and pregnant women.
