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Atencion Primaria 2013
Topics: Chronic Disease; Humans; Primary Prevention
PubMed: 23931963
DOI: 10.1016/j.aprim.2013.07.001 -
The Psychiatric Clinics of North America Mar 2011This article provides a conceptual framework for research and outlines several new directions for the same on the prevention of depression in youth and reviews the... (Review)
Review
This article provides a conceptual framework for research and outlines several new directions for the same on the prevention of depression in youth and reviews the recent literature on prevention efforts targeting children and adolescents. Prevention efforts should target both specific and nonspecific risk factors, enhance protective factors, use a developmental approach, and target selective and/or indicated samples. A review of the literature indicates that prevention programs using cognitive-behavioral and/or interpersonal approaches and family-based prevention strategies are the most helpful. Overall, it seems that there is reason for hope regarding the role of interventions in preventing depressive disorders in youth.
Topics: Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Age Factors; Depression; Humans; Primary Prevention; Resilience, Psychological; Risk Factors
PubMed: 21333838
DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2010.11.015 -
Pediatric Diabetes Jun 2007
Topics: Child; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1; Disease Progression; Humans; Primary Prevention
PubMed: 17550421
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5448.2007.00256.x -
The American Journal of Nursing Mar 2002
Review
Topics: Aspirin; Cardiovascular Diseases; Chemoprevention; Evidence-Based Medicine; Humans; Patient Selection; Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors; Primary Prevention; Risk Factors; Treatment Outcome
PubMed: 11976531
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Lancet (London, England) Jul 2014In the first three decades of life, more individuals in the USA die from injuries and violence than from any other cause. Millions more people survive and are left with... (Review)
Review
In the first three decades of life, more individuals in the USA die from injuries and violence than from any other cause. Millions more people survive and are left with physical, emotional, and financial problems. Injuries and violence are not accidents; they are preventable. Prevention has a strong scientific foundation, yet efforts are not fully implemented or integrated into clinical and community settings. In this Series paper, we review the burden of injuries and violence in the USA, note effective interventions, and discuss methods to bring interventions into practice. Alliances between the public health community and medical care organisations, health-care providers, states, and communities can reduce injuries and violence. We encourage partnerships between medical and public health communities to consistently frame injuries and violence as preventable, identify evidence-based interventions, provide scientific information to decision makers, and strengthen the capacity of an integrated health system to prevent injuries and violence.
Topics: Accidental Falls; Brain Injuries; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Evidence-Based Medicine; Government Programs; Humans; Primary Prevention; Public Health; Residence Characteristics; United States; Violence; Wounds and Injuries
PubMed: 24996591
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60074-X -
Journal of Primary Care & Community... Apr 2013
Topics: Epidemiology; Health Policy; Health Services Administration; Humans; Primary Prevention; United States
PubMed: 23799713
DOI: 10.1177/2150131913475551 -
The Medical Journal of Australia Jun 2013A trend in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been a move away from managing isolated risk factors, such as hypertension and dyslipidaemia, towards...
A trend in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been a move away from managing isolated risk factors, such as hypertension and dyslipidaemia, towards assessment and management of absolute CVD risk. In Australian guidelines, absolute CVD risk is calculated as the probability of a stroke, transient ischaemic attack, myocardial infarction, angina, peripheral arterial disease or heart failure occurring within the next 5 2013s. Absolute CVD risk should be regularly assessed in patients aged 45 2013s or older (35 2013s or older in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people) using the Australian absolute CVD risk calculator (http://www.cvdcheck.org.au). For patients currently taking a blood pressure (BP)-lowering or lipid-lowering agent, pretreatment values should be used to calculate risk. Patients at high absolute risk of CVD (> 15% over 5 2013s) should be treated with both BP-lowering and lipid-lowering agents, unless contraindicated or clinically inappropriate. For patients at moderate absolute risk of CVD (10%-15%) treatment with a BP-lowering and/or a lipid-lowering agent should be considered if the risk remains elevated after lifestyle interventions, BP is ≥ 160/100 mmHg, there is a family history of premature CVD, or the patient is of South Asian, Middle Eastern, Maori, Pacific Islander, Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander ethnicity. BP measurements taken using an oscillometric device can be used to approximate mean daytime ambulatory BP.
Topics: Australia; Cardiovascular Diseases; Humans; Hypolipidemic Agents; Middle Aged; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Primary Prevention; Risk Factors; Risk Reduction Behavior
PubMed: 23919708
DOI: 10.5694/mja12.11054 -
Heart (British Cardiac Society) May 2016
Topics: Biomedical Research; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Diseases; Death, Sudden, Cardiac; Defibrillators; Defibrillators, Implantable; Electric Countershock; Humans; Primary Prevention; Risk Factors
PubMed: 27114504
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2016-309722 -
The Medical Journal of Australia Mar 2006Recommendations for primary prevention in women need to be different.
Recommendations for primary prevention in women need to be different.
Topics: Age Factors; Aged; Aspirin; Australia; Cardiovascular Diseases; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Evaluation; Female; Fibrinolytic Agents; Humans; Middle Aged; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Primary Prevention; Risk Assessment; Sex Factors; Treatment Outcome; Women's Health
PubMed: 16548826
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00231.x -
The European Journal of Health... Nov 2014Many children stand to benefit from being asthma-free for life with primary (i.e., prenatally started) prevention addressing one environmental exposure in a unifaceted...
BACKGROUND
Many children stand to benefit from being asthma-free for life with primary (i.e., prenatally started) prevention addressing one environmental exposure in a unifaceted (UF) approach or at least two in a multifaceted (MF) approach. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of primary prevention programmes for Dutch children in a decision-analytic framework.
METHODS
A decision-analytic tree model analysing healthcare costs and asthma cases prevented was developed to compare usual care (UC) with two UF and three MF programmes on the primary prevention of asthma amongst children. Programmes were evaluated through incremental cost-effectiveness ratios and net monetary benefits. Decision and parameter uncertainty were subjected to value-of-information analyses.
RESULTS
The current UC and one of three MF programmes dominated the other alternatives. The MF programme was more costly but also more effective than UC at an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of
8,209.20/additional asthma case prevented. The value of perfect information to reduce uncertainty was 291.6M at its lowest. Most of the uncertainty in the cost-effectiveness threshold was attributable to the probability and cost estimates for low-risk children. CONCLUSION
This study supports the feasibility of a structured programme that simultaneously addresses exposure to house dust mites, pet dander, environmental tobacco, and breast-feeding as a cost-effective alternative to UC in the primary prevention of asthma amongst children.
Topics: Asthma; Child; Child, Preschool; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Decision Trees; Health Care Costs; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Markov Chains; Primary Prevention
PubMed: 24096902
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-013-0532-x