Prevention or Prevent 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 Prevent (British government programme), 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