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Prevention may refer to:
Health and medicine
- Prevention (magazine), an American healthy lifestyle magazine
- Preventive medicine, 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
- Hazard prevention, the process of risk study, elimination, and mitigation in emergency management
- 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
- 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
- Prevention Institute, a non-profit center dedicated to improving community health and well-being
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 beginning with "prevention"
- All pages with titles containing prevention
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