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Preventive
"Preventive" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Out of the four policies that were suggested, I think the most effective one would be the "Improvement of Preventive Care and Health Promotion" policy.
Preventive measures are much more effective than the actual treatment.
The use of a condom during vaginal, anal, and oral intercourse is the best preventive measure.
Insurers are now required to cover a number of recommended preventive services, such as cancer, diabetes and blood pressure screenings, without additional cost sharing such as copays or deductibles.
In some cases, mastectomy is prophylactic surgery - a preventive measure taken by those considered to be at high risk of breast cancer.
Most insurance companies refuse to pay for preventive medicine.
At a televised press conference Thursday, government authorities attributed the spike to an influx of returnees from South Africa and also a laxity in observing preventive measures imposed in May during the first wave of the coronavirus cases.
The government is also calling on citizens to continue to abide by all the preventive measures that the Ministry of Health has put in place.
There's even talk of a preventive war by Israel against Syria.
Using a condom is preventive medicine.
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...and I sometimes think whether, like the ancient king, it would not be prudent to make an offering to destiny, and throw my set of emeralds into the lake." Emily could not but deprecate the emeralds being destined to any such preventive service;...
Physick is either curative or preventive.
Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.
Dogs should be warmly but airily housed; heartily, but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oatmeal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small quantity of salt, which is a preventive against worms […]
Eaten with sugar yaourt is very palatable and refreshing in warm weather and is said to be a preventive of fever.
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