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 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 * 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

Health and medicine

General safety

Other uses

See also