This would prevent conducting parallel meta-analyses that is usually less efficient.
bluntly compared the amendment to a tax on cigarettes, because it prevents "conduct" that policymakers "don't like". .
The Strong African American Families program, a universal intervention to deter alcohol use among rural African American preadolescents, was evaluated to determine whether it also prevented conduct problems across the 29 months separating the pretest and long-term follow-up assessments.
"The cost we will pay as a society will be more if we do not do something to prevent conduct in children that later will become criminal," the bill says.
For example, an economic study done for the government's mental health strategy (pdf) highlighted that for each pound spent, timely detection and treatment of depression at work can save £5; screening and early help for alcohol misuse can save £12; while school-based interventions to prevent conduct disorder can save £84.
The 'unjustifiably' limit might still be justified instrumentally: we should not want to prevent conduct that justifiably causes harm.
We begin with a set of individual and public interests that merit protection, given their role in human welfare: they can be protected by various methods, including various state activities; a system of criminal law makes its distinctive contribution to their protection by forbidding and thus preventing conduct that threatens substantial harm to them.
However, ethical concerns prevent conduct of such a trial.
They found the total (short, medium and long-term) returns on programs delivered in childhood, adolescence and youth to be large: up to 83 times the cost of the intervention in the case of programs aimed at preventing conduct disorder [ 83].
Women were prevented from conducting business without a male representative, be it father, brother, husband, legal agent, or even son.
