Quotes About Prevention

That's why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?

Taishakuten ruled Tenkai by fear to prevent the six stars from gathering but…that only encouraged their concentration—as was meant to happen.

The Four Questions?" "As put forth by Mettleheim: How did this happen? How could this happen? Is it exceptional? How will it be avoided in the future?

They strung up the guilty and, in the interest of prevention, a robust percentage of the innocent.

He apparently wasn't wearing a seat belt and the part of his brain you'd want to communicate with is still on the inside of the windshield.

But the chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not Punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

You take care out there. Don't freeze off anything you might need later.

Conceptualize that primary prevention extends beyond the individual by improving health outcomes of entire communities

prevention supports the health care infrastructure, is an effective use of health care resources, and assists those most in need by decreasing disparities in health.

Thus the greater impact occurs with strategies that focus on the primary prevention of diseases at the policy and environmental-change

Primary prevention requires a shift from a focus on programs to a focus on more far-reaching prevention initiatives and from a focus on the individual to a focus on the environment.

many forces in the social, cultural, and physical environment conspire against such change (Institute of Medicine, 2000, p. 4). It is therefore essential for a successful prevention initiative to be comprehensive; it must address the environmental as well as individual

In other words, risk-focused studies do not generally give us research-based answers or prevention

Furthermore, the return on investment for prevention is substantial; for every $1 invested in community-based prevention, the return amounts to $5.60 in the fifth year. Prevention investments result in savings for both public and private health care

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

Yet, ironically, the one thing most people think accountability groups do best is what they don't do well at all. They're not good at preventing sin.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

yes, if you doubt it, it's true that people can feel suicidal after using marijuana, especially when they are young and use high-potency products with high frequency. I know because it happened to my son in front of my very eyes.

Kids are doing meth in every town in the country, Cat. Dang. Get your head out of your butt.

After all, when you are sick, there are plenty of places (insurance willing) where you can go to get healed, but when you are healed are there any places you can go to learn not to be sick?

The farther these potential invaders were kept from vulnerable English shores, the better.

Such accidents have to happen. But they don't have to happen to you and me.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

And finally, most crucially: preventing the spread of un-American views by quietly removing children from un-American environments—the definition of which was ever expanding: