Prevention is better than cure

FINAL PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. Final Report of the Evaluation: Prevention or Cure? Comparing Preventive and Recuperative Approaches to Targeting Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Programs in Rural Haiti

Problems and Pitfalls in Crime Prevention

That prevention is better than cure is a rather trite but nevertheless important axiom. It may be tempting, therefore, for those individuals, governments and groups charged with the responsibility of crime prevention to rush into any program that boasts a ’preventative’ approach. This paper is designed to alert those engaged in crime prevention policy-making, planning, implementation and evalua...

Prevention and correction in post-error performance: an ounce of prevention, a pound of cure.

Error detection serves 2 different functions: prevention and cure. Prevention engages post-error slowing to reduce future errors, whereas cure engages processes that correct the error. Thus, prevention predicts post-error slowing, and cure does not. We investigated this distinction in skilled typists in 3 experiments. In Experiment 1, post-error performance was investigated in 800 typists who c...

Hepatitis B and C: prevention is better than cure.

Variable Dependency in Local Search: Prevention Is Better Than Cure

Prevention Is Better than Cure: The Role of IPO Syndicates in Precluding Information Acquisition

We treat information acquisition by potential investors in initial public offerings as endogenous. With endogenous information, the critical question is why underwriters would allow investors to spend resources acquiring superior information intended solely to effect a wealth transfer. We show that an investment banking syndicate is an institutional arrangement designed to avoid such a transfer...