background: this study was conducted to detect clusters of pulmonary tb cases in hamadan province, west of iran. methods: all patients with pulmonary tuberculosis recorded in the surveillance system from 2005 to 2013 were studied. the spatial scan statistic was used to detect significant clusters in status of unadjusted and adjusted for age, sex and location residence variables. results: cluste...

Authors' conclusions Definitions for neither 'prevention' nor 'economic incentive' are specifically addressed in the literature. Research on the effects of incentive interventions on preventive care and health promotion appears to be driven by policy considerations. Definitions for preventive care and economic incentives are not emphasized in the literature, not only in terms of locating the in...

Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recognizes that infant oral health is the foundation upon which preventive education and dental care must be built to enhance the opportunity for a lifetime free from preventable oral disease. Recognizing that allied health professionals and community organizations must be involved as partners to achieve this goal, the AAPD proposes rec...

In this issue of Eurosurveillance, Chironna et al. report on an unfortunate death of an asplenic individual with fulminant pneumococcal sepsis [1]. Whether or not the death of this particular individual could have been avoided with active preventive interventions remains unanswered. It does, however, raise the alert to revisit the preventive guidelines of asplenic patients in general, and need ...

Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recognizes that infant oral health is one of the foundations upon which preventive education and dental care must be built to enhance the opportunity for a lifetime free from preventable oral disease. The AAPD proposes recommendations for preventive strategies, oral health risk assessment, anticipatory guidance, and therapeutic interven...

To aid priority setting in prevention, the Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Prevention Project (ACE-Prevention) applies standardised evaluation methods to assess the cost-effectiveness of 100 to 150 preventive interventions, taking predominantly a health sector perspective. This information is intended to help decision makers move resources from less efficient current practices to more efficient...

An initial step in this regard can be integrating preventive oral health care with the immunization visits of the child. During these visits, pediatricians can provide counseling on caries prevention and encourage parents to make well-child visit to a dentist. The inclusion of oral health status of the child in the immunization-card can serve as record of the preventive oral health services pro...

The Institute of Medicine Committee on Prevention of Mental Disorders recommended in 1994 that prevention in psychiatry should be referred to as ‘preventive intervention’, defined as an intervention before the patient receives a diagnosis. Preventive interventions, furthermore, were categorised as ‘indicated’ (i.e. treating high-risk individuals with premorbid signs or symptoms), ‘selective’ (i...

AIM The research production of the Chinese academics for the past few decades, which is being published in more than nine thousands of Chinese academic periodicals, has recently been digitalized and made available in the public domain. The aim of this study was to systematically identify and assess the evidence from Chinese literature sources on the efficacy and effectiveness of child health in...

OBJECTIVE Alcohol-impaired driving persists as a major cause of traffic fatalities and injuries among young drivers. This meta-analysis examined whether brief alcohol interventions were effective in reducing driving after drinking among adolescents and young adults. METHOD Our systematic search identified 12 experimental/quasi-experimental evaluations (16 intervention groups) that measured dr...