Prevention may refer to:
Health and medicine
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Preventive healthcare
Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, is the application of healthcare measures to prevent diseases.Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health a ...
, measures to prevent diseases or injuries rather than curing them or treating their symptoms
General safety
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Crime prevention
Crime prevention refers to strategies and measures that seek to reduce the risk of crime occurring by intervening before a crime has been committed. It encompasses many approaches, including developmental, situational, community-based and crimin ...
, the attempt to reduce deter crime and criminals
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Disaster prevention
Emergency management (also Disaster management) is a science and a system charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. Emergency management, despite its name, does not actua ...
, measures taken to prevent and provide protection for disasters
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Pollution prevention in the US, activities that reduce the amount of pollution generated by a process
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Preventive maintenance
The technical meaning of maintenance involves functional checks, servicing, repairing or replacing of necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure and supporting utilities in industrial, business, and residential installa ...
, maintenance performed to prevent faults from occurring or developing into major defects
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Prevent strategy, a scheme in the UK to report radicalisation
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Risk
In simple terms, risk is the possibility of something bad happening. Risk involves uncertainty about the effects/implications of an activity with respect to something that humans value (such as health, well-being, wealth, property or the environ ...
prevention, reducing the potential of loss from a given action, activity and/or inaction
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Risk management
Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks, followed by the minimization, monitoring, and control of the impact or probability of those risks occurring. Risks can come from various sources (i.e, Threat (sec ...
, the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks in business
Other uses
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''Prevention'' (magazine), an American healthy lifestyle magazine
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''Prevention'' (album), a 2009 album by the Scottish indie rock band De Rosa
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Prevent defense, an American football defensive alignment
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Prevention First, a nonprofit organization supporting drug-free communities through public education
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Prevent strategy, part of the CONTEST anti-terror defence in the UK
See also
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''Preventive Medicine'' (journal), a peer-reviewed medical journal
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Prevention paradox, the situation where the majority of cases of a disease come from a population at low risk
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Prevention science, the application of a scientific methodology to prevent or moderate major human dysfunctions
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Prevention through design
Prevention through design (PtD), also called safety by design in Europe, is the concept of applying methods to minimize occupational hazards early in the design process, with an emphasis on optimizing employee health and safety throughout the ...
, the concept of mitigating occupational hazards by "designing them out"
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''Preventable'' (book), a 2022 book by Devi Sridhar
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