Everything from family history, to lifestyle factors, risk factors, early warning signs and annual diagnostics are covered.

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The WEF this year is setting out to create a stronger risk mitigation framework and early warning mechanism for the globe, specifically designed to deal with the tensions and dilemmas that abound.

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The initiative will embody an inter- and trans-disciplinary approach to provide early warning signals of environmental risk and change, and stimulate new research to support the transition of societies towards sustainability.

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Indeed, he highlights the decision to remove the Newsnight Savile investigation from something called the Managed Risk Programmes List, which circulates to all BBC departments as an early warning of programmes that might, among other things, pose a "reputational risk" to the Corporation.

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In the aftermath of 2010 floods, UNESCO has initiated a major project "Strategic Strengthening of Flood Warning and Management Capacity of Pakistan" for upgrading the flood forecasting and early warning system, and for the risk mapping of flood plains along the Indus River, in cooperation with the government of Japan.

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Professor Lipkin is one of the leading advocates of a global early warning system for contagious disease to reduce the risk of the sort of pandemic seen in Contagion.

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Corporate boards will be preoccupied with risk management or, as it will be fashionable to say, early warning.

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The UN Special Representative on Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlstrom, said the disaster showed that more must be done "to ensure early warning systems are effective in an age when climate change is intensifying the impact of typhoons".

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