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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Integrating community health workers into state and local chronic disease prevention efforts :... 
    Publication: [Washington, D.C.] : AcademyHealth, February 2018
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101730855
    ... without diabetes. The benefits associated with investing in chronic disease prevention include improved quality of life, lower health care spending, less school and workplace ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Blueprint for a healthier America : modernizing the federal public health system to focus on .... 
    Publication: Washington, DC : Trust for America's Health, October 2008
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101487990
    ... robs more Americans of of its resources in chronic disease prevention their lives (and their quality of life), it is also activities. At the state level, ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Why not the best? : results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, ... 
    Publication: New York, NY : Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, July 2008
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101513224
    ... to increase points to the need for better prevention and 72 for healthy lives. management of chronic diseases to enhance quality of On those indicators for which trend data exist, life and capacity to work, especially among younger performance ...
  4. Topic Findings by Report - Through the Quality Kaleidoscope: Reflections on the Science and Practice of Improving ... 
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK126729
    ... prescribed self-administered medication for secondary or tertiary prevention of ... of life, patient satisfaction, health care utilization, quality of care, ...
  5. Introduction - Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (Vol. 2: Diabetes Care) - ... 
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK43944
    ... diabetes exemplifies the challenges of, and opportunities for, chronic ... prevention screening processes demonstrate the pressing need to improve ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Birth defects and developmental disabilities : the search for causes and cures 
    Publication: Washington, DC : Trust for America's Health, July 2005
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101281311
    ... surgical and medical treatment. These chil- ... still be affected in their quality of life. risk factors for major birth defects in the ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Shortchanging America's health : a state-by-state look at how public health dollars are spent ... 
    Publication: Washington, DC : Trust for America's Health, March 2010
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101528471
    ... years, the situation has gotten worse, as ease prevention programs can reduce ... of their quality of life.2 A 2008 could provide significant increases for ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - SUNY-Stony Brook Medical School Commencement, 1999 May 13 
    https://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101647507X367
    ... more cost- effective to prevent than to treat illness. Physicians have let ... the context of chronic conditions, or help them in lifestyle changes that ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Class Day Address, Sophie Davis-CUNY, 1999 Jun 2 
    https://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101647507X369
    ... more cost- | effective to prevent than to treat illness. Physicians have ... the context of chronic conditions, or help them in lifestyle changes that ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Pennsylvania State University Medical School Commencement, 1998 May 17 
    https://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101647507X359
    ... more cost-effective to prevent than to treat illness. Physicians have let ... the context of chronic conditions, or help them in lifestyle changes that ...
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