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What does prevention mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
  2. (medicine) Any measure intended to limit health-related risks (such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc.).
  3. (obsolete) The act of going, or state of being, before.
  4. (obsolete) Anticipation; especially, anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks; hence, precaution; forethought.
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The new revised intervention programme provides national guidance for prevention of and health promotion in cardiovascular health.
The objectives are specific and measurable, covering a sweeping range of prevention strategies.
Biological expertise could thus be the basis of risk prevention strategies by a variety of agencies of social control.
For many of her type and generation, prevention from celebrity is a kind of jail.
Susan is the leader of the homelessness action group, a prevention and resettlement team for York Salvation Army.
He said the maxim, prevention is better than cure, holds true in agriculture as in human health.

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