preventable disease
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpreventableanddisease
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preventable
adjective
uk/prɪˈven.tə.bəl/us/prɪˈven.t̬ə.bəl/
able to ...
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disease
noun
uk/dɪˈziːz/us/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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(Definition ofpreventableanddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is an acquired disease and apreventabledisease.
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Billions in the south suffer avoidable starvation andpreventabledisease.
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It meanspreventablediseasebut, above all, it means hunger.
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For now, we must not forget the serious implications of thispreventabledisease, and the price to paid for its sequels.
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Nurses attended to health maintenance and risk reduction, such as managing breastfeeding problems and stressing the importance of immunization against vaccinepreventabledisease.
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There has been progress in cutting deaths frompreventabledisease, but it has been too slow.
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With regard topreventabledisease, there is a case for at least some degree of congratulation.
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The elimination ofpreventablediseaseis also a pre-condition of economic growth.
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The degree of importance is that cancer of the uterine cervix is now apreventabledisease.
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It has been apreventablediseasefor 20, 30 or 40 years.
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There can be no sanctity for a family suffering from malnutrition andpreventabledisease.
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Thirteen million children die every year frompreventablediseaseand 200 million children are undernourished.
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It also has the worst health, with a high incidence ofpreventabledisease, especially heart disease.
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Over £1 billion a year is spent on an entirelypreventabledisease.
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Thus, cancer is considered a largelypreventabledisease.
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On this very day more people are dying of an unnecessarypreventablediseasethan died during the era of cholera.
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It is because of such evidence that the report claims that, for many, lung cancer is a largelypreventabledisease.
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Smoking remains one of the biggest single causes ofpreventablediseaseand premature death in this country.
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Money would have to be spent, but wonders could be worked in dealing with apreventablediseaselike tuberculosis.
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All that can be done, should be done to protect troops againstpreventabledisease.
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Secondly, it is foolish to continue to expend £300,000,600 a year onpreventabledisease, quite apart from the avoidable suffering involved.
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One of the greatest crimes that we can commit at the present time is to allow anypreventablediseaseto continue.
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Is he not aware that this is an almost entirelypreventabledisease, a disease which, if treated promptly and efficiently, should have practically no mortality?
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