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[prevention] PREVENTION may refer to: [TOC right]
** 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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