Both officials said that nationwide educational and preventive efforts were working, especially among the young.

Because the effect of sexually transmitted diseases on young people is so great, special preventive efforts are needed to reach them, it said.

The infection locus has been contained, but preventive efforts will continue.

Its aim is to bring the needs of children to public attention and to encourage preventive efforts in areas like health care and teen-age pregnancy.

What of preventive efforts, such as family counseling and mental health services?

This discriminatory thinking has robbed millions of women of their health and life because preventive efforts have focused primarily on men.

Although preventive efforts avert serious diseases and their costly consequences, the saving is often offset by dramatic rises in use of those services.

It is this preventive effort which, in my view, is the most important thing for employers now to begin to engage in.

At the same time, an independent analysis of the study showed, communities can save money over and above the cost of such a preventive effort.

Where an institutional view is predominant, preventive efforts are pitched at the secondary level: early intervention to prevent problems worsening.