Prevention may refer to:
- General safety
- Crime prevention
- Hazard prevention, the process of risk study and elimination and mitigation in emergency management
- Pollution prevention
- Preventive maintenance
- Risk prevention
- Risk management
- Health and medicine
- Preventive medicine
- Preventive Medicine (journal), a peer-reviewed medical journal
- Prevention (magazine), an American healthy lifestyle magazine
- Other
- prevent defense, an American football defensive alignment
- Prevention (album) (2009), an album by the Scottish indie-rock band De Rosa
- Prevent (campaign), an anti-radicalization program in the United Kingdom
Famous quotes containing the word prevention:
“... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)