Prevention

Prevention may refer to:

Health and medicine

  • Preventive healthcare, measures to prevent diseases or injuries rather than curing them or treating their symptoms

General safety

  • Crime prevention, the attempt to reduce deter crime and criminals
  • Disaster prevention, measures taken to prevent and provide protection for disasters
  • Pollution prevention, activities that reduce the amount of pollution generated by a process
  • Preventive maintenance, maintenance performed to prevent faults from occurring or developing into major defects
  • Prevent strategy, a scheme in the UK to report radicalisation
  • Risk prevention, reducing the potential of loss from a given action, activity and/or inaction
  • Risk management, the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks in business

Other uses

See also

  • Preventive Medicine (journal), a peer-reviewed medical journal
  • Prevention paradox, the situation where the majority of cases of a disease come from a population at low risk
  • Prevention science, the application of a scientific methodology to prevent or moderate major human dysfunctions
  • Prevention through design, the concept of mitigating occupational hazards by "designing them out"
  • All pages with titles beginning with prevention
  • All pages with titles containing prevention
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