Prevention
# Prevention

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

* 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
