Prevention
Encyclopedia
Prevention-to avoid doing; stay away from dangerous or risky things.
Prevention refers to:
Prevention refers to:
- Preventive medicinePreventive medicinePreventive medicine or preventive care refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, rather than curing them or treating their symptoms...
- Hazard preventionHazard preventionHazard prevention refers to the prevention of risks. The first and most effective stage of hazard prevention and emergency management is the elimination of hazards...
, the process of risk study and elimination and mitigation in emergency management - RiskRiskRisk is the potential that a chosen action or activity will lead to a loss . The notion implies that a choice having an influence on the outcome exists . Potential losses themselves may also be called "risks"...
prevention - Risk managementRisk managementRisk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities...
- Preventive maintenancePreventive maintenancePreventive maintenance has the following meanings:#The care and servicing by personnel for the purpose of maintaining equipment and facilities in satisfactory operating condition by providing for systematic inspection, detection, and correction of incipient failures either before they occur or...
- Crime preventionCrime preventionCrime prevention is the attempt to reduce victimization and to deter crime and criminals. It is applied specifically to efforts made by governments to reduce crime, enforce the law, and maintain criminal justice.-Studies:...
- The prevent defensePrevent defensePrevent defense is an American football defensive alignment that uses seven or more defensive backs or players in a defensive back role, the goal of which is to prevent the opposing offense from completing a long pass...
in American football
- Prevention (album)Prevention (album)Prevention is the critically acclaimed second studio album by Scottish band De Rosa, released March 2, 2009 through Chemikal Underground and Gargleblast Records. Guitarist Chris Connick states that the album features "ten tracks of misery and place, from Lanarkshire," and notes that it "differs...
, an album by Scottish band De Rosa - Prevention (magazine)Prevention (magazine)Prevention is an American healthy lifestyle magazine, started in 1950, and published by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The range of subjects includes food, nutrition, workouts, beauty, and cooking. It was founded by J. I. Rodale...
, a magazine about health in the United States - Prevent (company), a former company from Slovenia
- Prevent (campaign), an anti-radicalizationRadicalizationRadicalization is the process in which an individual changes from passiveness or activism to become more revolutionary, militant or extremist. Radicalization is often associated with youth, adversity, alienation, social exclusion, poverty, or the perception of injustice to self or others.-...
program in the United Kingdom