Prevention

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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 in the US, 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

• Prevention (magazine), an American healthy lifestyle magazine
• Prevention (album), a 2009 album by the Scottish indie rock band De Rosa
• Prevent defense, an American football defensive alignment
• Prevention First, a nonprofit organization supporting drug-free communities through public education
• Prevent strategy, part of the CONTEST anti-terror defence in the UK

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"
• Preventable (book), a 2022 book by Devi Sridhar
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