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