One of the most preventable causes for animal injury is from humans feeding wildlife.
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One of the most frustrating is also the most preventable: the youth smoking and vaping epidemics.
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Heart disease may be the number one cause death in America, but it also one of the most preventable.
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The most common health conditions in the U.S. are also the most preventable, yet they are costing us dearly.
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"Whooping cough and measles, especially, are two of the most preventable infectious diseases in the Western world," she said.
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Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, and UV light exposure is its most preventable risk factor.
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Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable and treatable diseases, and yet, thousands in the U.S. still lose their lives to it each year.
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"Obesity is one of the most preventable causes of early death and it, as an epidemic, should not be taken lightly," Almazeedi told Reuters Health by email.
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Although the marine debris plaguing Hawaii is the most widespread type of trash in our oceans, it is also some of the most preventable waste, according to NOAA.
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"The most preventable reason for outbreaks is vaccine refusal," said study author Saad Omer, an epidemiologist at the Emory Vaccine Center in Atlanta who's been studying vaccine issues for more than a decade.
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They do a lot of stuff that I was hoping that my watch one day would do, because that's how you stop heart attacks, the most preventable form of death in this country.
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Maybe they would be people from Kentucky — the state with the most cancer deaths and the most preventable hospitalizations, 45th out of 50 in the incidence of diabetes and 47th in terms of heart disease.
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Earlier this year, WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the global community to act against cervical cancer, one of the "most preventable forms of cancer as long as it is detected early and managed effectively."
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"Domestic violence homicides are among the most predictable, and therefore the most preventable, of all homicides because there are patterns that can be identified," said Toni Troop, the director of communications and development for Jane Doe Inc.
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"Domestic violence homicides are among the most predictable, and therefore the most preventable, of all homicides because there are patterns that can be identified," said Toni Troop, the director of communications and development for Jane Doe Inc.
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Thanks to everyone's least favorite screening test — the pap smear — cervical cancer has gone from being a leading cause of death in young women in the 1940s to being one of the most preventable and curable cancers today.
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In 2000, only 86 cases were reported, and measles was considered formally eradicated from the US. But as pockets of people around the US have refused to vaccinate their children, measles — considered one of the most preventable diseases — has made a comeback.
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When it comes to screening, the jury's out While the HPV vaccine and routine screening have made cervical cancer "one of the most preventable cancers," as the CDC says, the jury's still out on who should be screened for anal cancer, when and how.
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"The senseless murder of so many, including my 14-year-old daughter, Alaina, tests the limits of faith and demands more endurance than I thought possible," said Ryan Petty, who choked back tears and called the massacre "arguably the most preventable school shooting in history" because of the gunman's troubled history.
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most preventable forms of cancer, yet it remains the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. One of the main reasons for this is that one-third of eligible patients — 23 million Americans — do not stay up to date with colorectal cancer screenings.
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Here are a few good reasons to start: Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. It's also the most preventable, says Clinical Associate Professor of Dermatology at NYU and Vice President of the Skin Care Foundation Dr. Elizabeth Hale, since regular use of sunscreen is one of the most effective prevention strategies around.
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A lack of screening for cervical cancer is among the most obvious and most preventable risk factor for lesbians, bisexual, and queer women in the development of invasive late-stage cervical cancer. Lesbian, bisexual, and queer women are less likely to receive appropriate screening for cervical cancer than heterosexual women, which leads to later detection of cervical cancer.
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During a speech delivered in 2007, Harding spoke out against the United States-led Iraq War, describing it as unwinnable and saying "This was a war of choice. One of the most preventable wars in modern times. Launched in the face of worldwide condemnation". In the same speech, Harding stressed that while it was acceptable to criticise American foreign policy because it affects the rest of the word, letting that criticism lead to anti-Americanism would be counterproductive.
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Conditions such as obesity, nutritional deficiencies, infections, chronic inflammations, and stress can also affect the maternal oxygen supply and fetal uptake. The most preventable cause is maternal smoking. Cigarette smoking by expectant mothers has been shown to have a wide variety of deleterious effects on the developing fetus. Among the negative effects are carbon monoxide induced tissue hypoxia and placental insufficiency which causes a reduction in blood flow from the uterus to the placenta thereby reducing the availability of oxygenated blood to the fetus.
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For years, one of the most preventable causes of death in non-fatally wounded people has been the inability to quickly and effectively stop bleeding. Military doctors Nolan Shipman and Charles S. Lessard write in Military Medicine journal that "[t]he first step in containing seriously wounded casualties is to control the hemorrhage as much as possible." In the era preceding Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), US military medics would take wounded soldiers from battlefields to hospitals for treatment. This often resulted in prolonged and irreversible loss of blood.
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Since both the digestive system and the respiratory system are connected by the pharynx, there are many problems and diseases that occur when the body is unable to regulate passage of food and air into the appropriate tracts. Perhaps the most preventable cause of damage to these reflexes originates from smoking. One study has shown that, when compared to non-smokers, the threshold volumes (in other words the lowest volume at which one of these reflexes is triggered) for both the pharyngo-upper esophageal sphincter contractile reflex and reflexive pharyngeal swallowing is increased.
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Through this collaborative effort, PQCs can aim to make impacts on quality both at the direct patient care level and through larger system devices like policy. It is thought that the institution of PQCs in California was the main contributor to the maternal mortality rate decreasing by 50% in the years following. The PQC developed review guides and quality improvement initiatives aimed at the most preventable and prevalent maternal deaths: those due to bleeding and high blood pressure. Success has also been observed with PQCs in Illinois and Florida.
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Therefore, sheltering for the first few hours can save lives. Indeed, death and injury from local fallout is regarded by experts as the most preventable of all the effects of a nuclear detonation, being simply dependent on if personnel know how to identify an adequate shelter when they see one and enter one quickly, with the number of potential people saved being cited as in the hundreds of thousands. Or even higher if the remaining occupants of the city are made aware of the contaminated areas, by emergency systems, within hours of the event's aftermath. In 2009 to 2013 a further iteration on sheltering-in-place was made to determine the optimal improvised fallout-shelter-residence-times following a nuclear detonation, with computer analysis, and including a summary of prior studies and guidance.
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This further discourages innovation and perpetuates low value programs and work teams that should be eliminated altogether rather than "improved". Because most preventable "safety" mishaps are caused by human factors (83% of Fiscal Year 2007 Air Force major mishap costs due to human factors per AF Safety Center)Catalog of Air Force Statistics by Aircraft Type, considered typical for US Military and can be traced to human cultural and behavioral issues, according to DSP, safety can and should uniquely apply a "disruptive" solution set to addressing the issues. Such a disruptive, iterative approach may not be appropriate in otherwise hardware-centric, large budget programs, such an aircraft procurement and production. To address the safety cultural issues associated with mishap prevention in a large bureaucracy, Air National Guard safety directorate pursued a disruptive approach in requirement definition, problem identification, solution vetting, funding, and procurement.
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