avertable


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Synonyms for avertable

capable of being avoided or warded off

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By all measures, this is an entirely avertable occurrence, and lack of vigilance regarding such fire hazards must be addressed.
It showed that with the right health investments, the international community could achieve a "grand convergence" in global health--a reduction in avertable infectious, maternal, and child deaths down to universally low levels--within a generation.
Prevention is appropriate to sustainability to the degree that preventive proposals can diminish ensuing resource requests and lifespan service employment (the concern of preventive undertaking must be hindering avertable use of health and social care resources).
Several factors might have affected the new estimates, including use of the NLST-reported screening effect as a parameter in determining the number of avertable lung cancer deaths.
First, that the event is completely avoidable; 114 second, the event is always the result of a medical mistake--not the result of hospitalization or an illness; 115 and third, the event is avertable through the adoption of simple, practical guidelines.
" I would like to think that technology in various spheres is advancing at a rapid phase and if a situation like this arises, the human race will get sufficient warning to harness its capability to avert the threat, if it is avertable," he added.
The differences in avertable disease incidence and mortality are due primarily to differential access to services for screening and treatment once cancer is discovered.
The ncluyon and bugang/kuang kulit are bearers of bad news, or warn of the presence of evil, but the events or the evil in question are not in general principle avertable. Hence, these signs are not properly called angai.