Risk factors

The basic principles for designing primary preventive interventions are as follows (a) focus on known risk factors (b) when reducing risk, enhance known protective factors (c) address risk and quot protective quot factors at appropriate developmental stages (d) intervene early, before the target behaviour stabilizes (e) include those at high risk and (f) address multiple risk factors with multiple strategies.

Lots of risk factors, but there is a genetic predisposition to prostate cancer.

In general, however, they target the more general rather than drug specific risk factors.

Tackling the risk factors for women apos s health

The notion of risk factors has led to the suggestion that illicit drug abuse can be averted if risk factors can be avoided or reduced.

Element of risk in the last bracketed phrase

Many persons exposed to the risk factors or correlates of the table do not make the decision to use illicit drugs.

Risk factors in diversification

To account for solvent sniffing among street children, economic deprivation might be one of the strongest risk factors.

Material foreseeable risk factors

However, the last bracketed phrase seemed to introduce a further risk element and limit protection in case of those operations inasmuch as they already entailed an element of risk.

These protracted delays are dangerous and have contributed to a deep uncertainty that continues to affect Côte d'Ivoire.

Finding the balance between those things is always dangerous because you might tip off too much in the direction of unprepared.

Risk and quot protective quot factors for initiation of illicit drug use among adolescents

Box 2 gives an overview of risk factors in diversification.4.

In developing appropriate drug policy around the concept of risk factors, it is important to distinguish between causes and correlates. Simply because the factors listed in the table correlate with initiation does not mean that they are causal factors.

Secondly, any widening of the scope of application should clearly reflect the element of risk.

The sponsors were of the view that natural disasters had an inherent element of risk.

There have been many epidemiological and aetiological studies, typically in developed countries, of risk factors, or correlates, of illicit drug abuse.

The element of risk was still important in determining which additional operations should fall under the Convention by way of a protocol.

Once the target population is known, one approach is to try to ameliorate many of the risk factors listed in the table.

One must also consider unfavourable risk factors such as smoking, alcoholism, obesity, etc.

These factors have had a huge impact on the country's development and have endangered many lives and livelihoods.

Risk factors

It was stressed that these situations all contained an element of risk.

A significant contributory factor underlying the financial crises was the premature liberalization of capital accounts in many countries.

Risk identification involves not only estimating the probabilities of hazard events of differing severities, but also identifying the factors that make socio economic systems vulnerable to hazards.

These factors have had a huge impact on the country's development and have endangered many lives and livelihoods.

The hazardous materials must be covered with a cover suited to the nature of the material so as to ensure its resistance to natural factors

Underlying Risk Factors

Most developing countries faced a serious risk of being left behind.

Being a married woman is a high risk factor in many countries.

This is after accounting for smoking, social class, diet, all those other known risk factors.

A number of factors are important to, and would therefore play a decisive role, in determining the effectiveness of the operations of the Global Mechanism.

Canada agreed with the Secretary General that the difficulty in the issuance of a declaration of exceptional risk was the single most important limitation to the protective regime of the Convention.

The world was a dangerous place for many children and adults had a responsibility to work towards the elimination of the factors which contributed to their harm.

The world was a dangerous place for many children, and adults had a responsibility to work towards the elimination of the factors that contributed to their harm.

In addition, prenatal exposure to illicit drugs and factors such as premature birth, low birth weight and poor relations between the child and care giver in early childhood have been identified as problematic in relation to later development and, consequently, as precursors of the risk factors listed in the table above.

The table presents the main risk factors identified to date, which are largely in relation to adolescents but, as suggested above, can be made relevant to a wider variety of societies by differential weighting.

The draft country programme document of the United Nations Children's Fund (E ICEF 2003 P L.10) noted

The risk of causing greater collateral damage by using unitary weapons against an area target is also an important consideration.

Wiens said that although heat will not directly exterminate species, it can help induce potentially hazardous factors.

Research on risk factors for non contagious diseases was conducted in Republika Srpska during 2002.

The security factor under the hardship scheme was monitored to preclude double counting, and as in the case of hazard pay, was arrived at in close cooperation with the Office of the United Nations Security Coordinator.