To this end, the legal requirement for a significant risk reduction needs to be translated into well-defined programmable decision rules.
Third, public and private investment in disaster risk reduction needs to focus on structural and nonstructural measures that can also result in cobenefits such as economic growth and job creation.
"Teaching about disaster risk reduction needs to start with children, and to involve parents and other community members as well.
Now more than ever, when we are trying to accelerate national and international efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, disaster risk reduction needs to be acknowledged and incorporated as a key plank of that work.
Yet counseling about alternative strategies for risk reduction need not exclude a recommendation of abstinence from sexual intercourse as the most efficacious means of prevention.
Participants in the highest risk quarter averaged a 21.4% three year absolute risk reduction (number needed to treat 4.6).
Other categorical analyses (relative risk reduction, number needed to treat) will be based on the criteria of 20% reduction in symptoms and absence of DSM GAD caseness.
Aggressive risk reduction is needed to further reduce the high absolute and relative risk of CVD still present in people with diabetes.
28 This study found that for any screening strategy to be cost-effective, long-term postpartum risk reduction measures needed to be successful.
The agency said in a new report issued today that a more pro-active approach based on the principles of risk reduction is needed to build greater resilience to droughts.
Even in the third quarter (second to highest risk of developing diabetes), patients in the metformin arm only had a 4.7% observed absolute risk reduction (number needed to treat (NNT)=22; hazard ratio 0.82, 0.57 to 1.18).
