Quotes About Prevention

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

even if masks reduced the transmission rate of the virus by only 10 percent, our models indicate that hundreds of thousands of deaths would be prevented around the world, creating trillions of dollars in economic value. This is a big effect of a small thing.

Give parents the tools to nurture their child in infancy and the result will be a more self-confident and resilient individual for decades to come. It's far less expensive to coach parents to support children than to maintain prisons years later.

Rescuing girls from brothels is the easy part, however. The challenge is keeping them from returning. The stigma that girls feel in their communities after being freed, coupled with drug dependencies or threats from pimps, often lead to return to the re-light district.

Earth will never be a paradise, but it could perhaps be prevented from coming closer and closer to being a vulgar imitation of hell.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

Either we prevent 1.5 degrees [Celsius] of warming or we don't.

I don't want to lose anyone else I care about... for reasons I don't understand! I swore to myself I would do whatever necessary to prevent that from ever happening again!

Getting to the root cause to eliminate problems and defects is close to the heart of lean manufacturing.  Just solving a problem to allow it to occur again is such a waste of human ingenuity.  Dr. Shingo would want us to spend a little more time up front, to investigate causes a little deeper to insure that the same problem would never happen again.

The more education we have, the more socially and physically active we are, and the more we participate in mentally stimulating activities, the less likely we are to get Alzheimer's disease or dementia.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

The more prepared you are, the less pressure you feel.

Resist beginnings; the prescription comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.

Overdoses had now surpassed car accidents to become the leading cause of preventable death in America. In a midyear update to the Sacklers in June 2016, staffers told the family that, according to surveys, nearly half of all Americans knew someone who had been addicted to prescription opioids.

and suggested that in the future I refrain from strenuous physical activity in a hot room the day after falling off a roof.

It is a sin to hurt someone, so by avoiding violence we do not sin ourselves and by stopping an opponent from hurting us, we prevent him from sinning.

Like Mendelsohn, Stewart believed the decline in pertussis in the United Kingdom had nothing to do with the vaccine; it was simply a matter of improved sanitation.

That's the problem with vaccines. When they work, absolutely nothing happens. Nothing. Parents go on with their lives, not once thinking that their child was saved from meningitis caused by Hib or from liver cancer caused by hepatitis B or from fatal pneumonia caused by pneumococcus or from paralysis caused by polio. We live in a state of blissful denial.

By 2009, almost a hundred million doses of the pneumococcal vaccine had been given to American children. As a consequence, the incidence of pneumococcal disease has decreased dramatically.37 Far fewer children now get meningitis, pneumonia, and bloodstream infections caused by pneumococcus.

I do not, of course, propose to neglect the sick, the feeble or the unfortunate," wrote Galton, "but I would exact an equivalent for the charitable assistance they receive by preventing the more faulty members of the flock from breeding." Galton argued that lunatics, criminals, and paupers should be placed in monasteries and convents "for the purpose of restricting their opportunities for producing low-class offspring." Breeding had become weeding.

The trouble you don't get into, you don't have to get out of!

When you catch bugs early, you also get fewer compound bugs. Compound bugs are two separate bugs that interact: you trip going downstairs, and when you reach for the handrail it comes off in your hand.

The best kind of self-control is to avoid situations that require self-control