Quotes About Prevention

modern Afghan history shows that "an ounce of nation-building prevention will be worth a pound of military-operation cure.

Remember the six Ps. Perfect Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.

Your crises and problems would shrink to manageable proportions because you would be thinking ahead, working on the roots, doing the preventive things that keep situations from developing into crises in the first place. In time management jargon, this is called the Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively. They have genuine Quadrant I crises and emergencies that require their immediate attention, but the number is comparatively small.

Chasing after the poisonous snake that bites us will only drive the poison through our entire system. It is far better to take measures immediately to get the poison out.

To paraphrase Peter Drucker, effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

To paraphrase Peter Drucker, effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively. They have genuine Quadrant I crises and emergencies that require their immediate attention, but the number is comparatively small. They keep P and PC in balance by focusing on the important, but not urgent, high leverage capacity-building activities of Quadrant II.

effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively. They

A good offense is the best defense.

el principio más importante del crecimiento empresarial: la regla de la luz verde: prevender, prevender, prevender.

for divorce. You don't kill to prevent things you don't know about. His

We can have a large impact on the prevention and amelioration of abuse, drug problems, violence, mental health problems, and dysfunction in families.

The swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

Among the best solutions: using disposable blood-pressure cuffs on incoming patients; infusing hospital equipment with silver ion particles to create an antimicrobial shield; and forbidding doctors to wear neckties because, as the U.K. Department of Health has noted, they "are rarely laundered," "perform no beneficial function in patient care," and "have been shown to be colonized by pathogens.

el Instituto de Medicina calculaba que cada año mueren entre 44.000 y 98.000 norteamericanos a causa de errores hospitalarios evitables —más muertos que por accidentes de automóvil o cáncer de mama—, y que uno de los principales errores es la infección de heridas. ¿La mejor medicina para evitar las infecciones? Hacer que los médicos se laven las manos con más frecuencia.

Para evitar heridas graves, los cinturones de seguridad funcionaron, una vez más, igual de bien que los asientos para niños de dos a seis años. Pero para heridas más leves, los asientos funcionaron mejor, reduciendo la probabilidad de heridas aproximadamente un 25 por ciento en comparación con los cinturones.

Por razones que Auvert y otros científicos no comprenden del todo, se descubrió que la circuncisión reduce el riesgo de transmisión del VIH hasta en un 60 por ciento en los hombres heterosexuales.

Los cinturones de seguridad reducen el peligro de muerte hasta en un 70 por ciento;

Por cada punto que aumenta el porcentaje de coches de una ciudad que tienen instalado el LoJack, la tasa general de robos disminuye un 20 por ciento.

And so this is why the whole world has suddenly taken an interest in whether Thai poultry workers get their flu shots: because the world wants to ensure that H5N1 stays as far away as possible from ordinary flu viruses.

at the helm of the General Board of Health, Chadwick helped solidify, if not outright invent, an ensemble of categories that we now take for granted: that the state should directly engage in protecting the health and well-being of its citizens, particularly the poorest among them; that a centralized bureaucracy of experts can solve societal problems that free markets either exacerbate or ignore; that public-health issues often require massive state investment in infrastructure or prevention.

Our facial expressions are hardwired5 into our emotions: we can't have one without the other. Botox lessens depression because it prevents us from making sad faces. But it also dampens our connection to those around us because we feel empathy by mimicking each other's facial expressions.

Violent crime is a solvable problem.

it's easier to deter people from crime if the lawful alternative is more appealing.