With the goal of preventing rather than responding to emergencies, the team identifies high probability cases with strong intensity of harm, spending approximately four minutes on each case and reducing the burden on the criminal justice system, the health system, and families within the city.
The reasons for not using antibiotics was generally a matter of their fish or shrimp not becoming ill and, therefore, purchasing antibiotics was unnecessary, rather than a matter of preventing antibiotic residues from being present.
So to handle bullying, whether it's about race or not, schools instead turn to programs that teach social and emotional skills in hopes of preventing conflict, rather than doling out harsh consequences after the fact.
Movies avoid the mere mention of birth control rather than portray the mechanics of preventing pregnancy and disease.
If we reimbursed on the basis of preventing disease rather than treating it, the world would be different.
Regulators, pilots and airlines now share much more extensive information about flying hazards, with the goal of preventing accidents rather than just reacting to them.
The case of Akwesasne is illustrative of unintended health and cultural consequences of relying on risk avoidance rather than risk reduction methods of preventing human exposure to contamination (O'Neill 2003NEJAC 2002).
Mr Severinsen believes that health monitoring has the potential to shift the focus of medicine more in the direction of preventing illness rather than the current method of treating conditions as they arise, "fighting fires" as he calls it.
Importantly, Unikey says its technology is able to detect whether the authorized user is standing inside or outside the house — which is rather, er, key, in terms of preventing an eKey-less stranger from gaining entry from outside if there happens to be a nearby eKey inside.
As a result, hormone replacement at menopause became rather routine in the service of preventing serious chronic disease, heart disease in particular, for a span of years.
