Teratogen-caused birth defects are potentially preventable.

They show that younger people make up a quarter of all those with diabetes yet have the highest risks of potentially preventable complications.

Bacterial vaginosis "is a potentially preventable cause of preterm birth," Dr. Hillier said.

"All drowning deaths are potentially preventable," a team of federally financed researchers said recently in The American Journal of Public Health.

Current evidence implicates a more complex sequence, potentially preventable, involving unintended secondhand exposure to fentanyl.

These events impose potentially preventable burdens on the patients.

Living in poverty is also shown to decrease an individual's access to preventative health services, which results in an increase in the acquisition of potentially preventable disabilities.

Suicide is a potentially preventable public health problem.

There is good news: According to the NMA, "Up to 83 percent of meningococcal disease cases among adolescents are potentially vaccine preventable."

Deaths from potentially preventable causes like accidents or infection account for 18 percent of infant mortality.