And it calls that figure "unacceptable for what is an almost totally preventable disease".
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Public-health officials retort that this would condemn millions to misery or death from a preventable disease.
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When we put an end to a preventable disease, all of us are safer because of it.
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Preventable disease is not a failure of medical science but a failure of our health care system.
But insurance alone is insufficient to tackle our chronic and preventable disease epidemic.
Consider that 75% of all healthcare spending is spent on preventable disease.
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There have been many new outbreaks of this very preventable disease across the country, some leading to the death of the infant.
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But if the world keeps the promises that it has made to itself to really fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, then nothing is impossible.
Children in India are now protected against this debilitating, but preventable disease, bringing us one step closer to saving and improving the lives of all children.
Polio is a vaccine-preventable disease that has been eradicated in most countries, but it still causes paralysis or death in some parts of the world, including Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Two UK development agencies, Tearfund and WaterAid, said the agreement to halve the number of people without access to sanitation was "the first milestone in a long fight to halt the millions of deaths caused by preventable disease".
Every year, nearly half a million women lose their lives to this terrible, treatable, and often preventable, disease.
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Preventable cardiovascular disease, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, mental health disorders and disabilities affect more and more people as obesity and other underlying risks increase and our population ages.
"It's unthinkable that polio still exists in the world when we have the tools and technology to protect children from this preventable, debilitating disease, " Bloomberg said in a statement.
The plan also provides greater assurance to donors that efforts to end polio will have a broader impact than just protecting children from this preventable and debilitating disease by eradicating it forever.
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However, most dental disease is preventable and many of the findings in this detailed report reinforce key existing oral health promotion messages.
They targeted individuals who care deeply about their country and who wanted nothing more than to protect their communities from a preventable, yet devastating disease.
The sportsman was helping the appeal with their "Get Fit, Get Healthy, Get Giving" campaign to take action against preventable diseases like heart disease, diabetes and many forms of cancer, she added.
He said there were also "major areas of challenge" including disappointing breast feeding rates, large variations in preventable tooth decay in children, high death rates from lung diseases and a large amount of preventable cancers and cardiovascular disease.
Tooth decay is a leading chronic childhood disease -- more common than asthma -- and it's almost entirely preventable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr Chris Jones, a cardiologist and medical director of NHS Wales, said coronary heart disease was a largely preventable condition, which increased in risk with age.
One out of every five children born in Zambia dies of a disease that's preventable, treatable and was eradicated from the United States and Europe a half a century ago.
It is the definitive expression of our collective wealth to act in the face of death and disease and conflict that is preventable.
It's a tragic disease because it's preventable and treatable.
"Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of preventable death in the UK, accounting for 300, 000 deaths a year, " she said.
The tragedy of seeing patients with alcoholic liver disease is that it's so preventable.
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death, killing 400, 000 from heart disease, lung cancer and emphysema.
Yet virtually all the cases are avoidable, even preventable: The cancer is caused by a sexually transmitted disease (STD) known as HPV (human papillomavirus).
Yet virtually all the cases were avoidable, even preventable: The cancer is caused by a sexually transmitted disease known as HPV (human papillomavirus).
We need to ask what "cultural disease" has allowed us to tolerate this preventable risk to our children for so long without action.
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