{{Broad-concept article}}{{wiktionary|prevention|prevent}} '''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 * {{lookfrom|prevention}} * {{in title|prevention}}
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