Prevention encompasses the interventions and strategies designed to reduce the occurrence, transmission, progression, or recurrence of disease before clinically significant harm develops. It is conventionally organised into primary prevention, which lowers the incidence of disease through risk-factor modification, v…
Prevention encompasses the interventions and strategies designed to reduce the occurrence, transmission, progression, or recurrence of disease before clinically significant harm develops. It is conventionally organised into primary prevention, which lowers the incidence of disease through risk-factor modification, vaccination, education, and protective behaviours; secondary prevention, which detects disease early through screening to enable timely treatment; and tertiary prevention, which limits disability and complications in established disease. Effective prevention depends on understanding the determinants of disease in defined populations, the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of communities and health workers, and the structures that support infection control, health literacy, and access to services. Major applications include the prevention and control of infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis, infection prevention and control within healthcare facilities, prevention of overweight, obesity, and falls, and behavioural programmes addressing suicide and other public-health concerns. Implementation research evaluates recruitment, adherence, and the influence of social and contextual factors on programme success. The peer-reviewed research collected under this topic addresses HIV prevention across varied settings, infection prevention and control among healthcare workers, prevention of obesity and falls, suicide prevention programmes, and the role of health literacy, reflecting prevention as a cross-cutting discipline that links epidemiology, behavioural science, and health-systems practice to reduce the burden of disease.
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 12 articles above have been cited 63 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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