Prevention may refer to:
Health and medicine
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Preventive healthcare
Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, consists of measures taken for the purposes of disease prevention.Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental hea ...
, measures to prevent diseases or injuries rather than curing them or treating their symptoms
General safety
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Crime prevention
Crime prevention is the attempt to reduce and deter crime and criminals. It is applied specifically to efforts made by governments to reduce crime, enforce the law, and maintain criminal justice.
Studies
Criminologists, commissions, and research b ...
, the attempt to reduce deter crime and criminals
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Disaster prevention
Emergency management or disaster management is the managerial function charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. Emergency management, despite its name, does not actuall ...
, measures taken to prevent and provide protection for disasters
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Pollution prevention in the US
Pollution prevention (P2) is a strategy for reducing the amount of waste created and released into the environment, particularly by industrial facilities, agriculture, or consumers. Many large corporations view P2 as a method of improving the effic ...
, 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
Contest may refer to:
* Competition
* Will contest
* Contesting, amateur radio contesting (radiosport)
Film and television
* ''Contest'' (2013 film), an American film
* Contest (1932 film), a German sports film
* "The Contest", a 1992 season 4 e ...
, 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 environme ...
prevention, reducing the potential of loss from a given action, activity and/or inaction
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Risk management, 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
The prevent defense is a defensive alignment in American football that seeks to prevent the offense from completing a long pass or scoring a touchdown in a single play and seeks to run out the clock. It is used by a defense that is winning by more ...
, an American football defensive alignment
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Prevention First
Prevention First is a nonprofit resource center based in Springfield, Illinois, committed to building and supporting healthy, drug-free communities through public education, professional training and effective tools for those working to prevent d ...
, a nonprofit organization supporting drug-free communities through public education
See also
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''Preventive Medicine'' (journal), a peer-reviewed medical journal
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Prevention paradox
The prevention paradox describes the seemingly contradictory situation where the majority of cases of a disease come from a population at low or moderate risk of that disease, and only a minority of cases come from the high risk population (of t ...
, the situation where the majority of cases of a disease come from a population at low risk
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Prevention science
Prevention science is the application of a scientific methodology that seeks to prevent or moderate major human dysfunctions before they occur. Regardless of the type of issue on hand, the factors that lead to the problem must be identified and ...
, 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 usually 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 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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