Prevention Explained
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, 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
See also