Preventive
adjective
Intended to stop something before it happens.
The doctor carried out preventive measures to ensure the patient doesn't fall sick again.
Often appears as...
- preventive measures
- preventive care
noun
A medicine or treatment designed to stop a disease or condition from happening.
Vaccines are a preventive against many viral diseases.
Often appears as...
- preventive intervention
- preventive medicine
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Intended to stop something before it happens.
The doctor carried out preventive measures to ensure the patient doesn't fall sick again.
Often appears as...
- preventive measures
- preventive care
noun
A medicine or treatment designed to stop a disease or condition from happening.
Vaccines are a preventive against many viral diseases.
Often appears as...
- preventive intervention
- preventive medicine
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Healthcare
Even though it often relates to health, 'preventive' is used in various fields to describe precautionary actions.
Regular maintenance is a preventive step to avoid car breakdowns.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasis on Timing
'Preventive' highlights actions taken before a potential problem or threat occurs.
Preventive diplomacy can help in avoiding international conflicts.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Collocations
Familiarize yourself with common phrases like 'preventive measures' to use 'preventive' accurately.
Following preventive measures is key to workplace safety.
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Healthcare
Even though it often relates to health, 'preventive' is used in various fields to describe precautionary actions.
Regular maintenance is a preventive step to avoid car breakdowns.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasis on Timing
'Preventive' highlights actions taken before a potential problem or threat occurs.
Preventive diplomacy can help in avoiding international conflicts.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Collocations
Familiarize yourself with common phrases like 'preventive measures' to use 'preventive' accurately.
Following preventive measures is key to workplace safety.
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Healthcare
Even though it often relates to health, 'preventive' is used in various fields to describe precautionary actions.
Regular maintenance is a preventive step to avoid car breakdowns.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasis on Timing
'Preventive' highlights actions taken before a potential problem or threat occurs.
Preventive diplomacy can help in avoiding international conflicts.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Collocations
Familiarize yourself with common phrases like 'preventive measures' to use 'preventive' accurately.
Following preventive measures is key to workplace safety.
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Medicine's future?...
to look with these little patterns and detect disease in a much earlier stage and this is being called by Li hood the father of the fear of p4 medicine we're going to be predictive we're going to know what you're likely to have we can be preventive that prevention can be personalized and more importantly it's going to become increasingly participatory through websites like
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Dean Ornish: The world's...
in most countries. So there's a critical window of opportunity we have to make an important difference that can affect the lives of literally millions of people, and practice preventive medicine on a global scale. Heart and blood vessel diseases still kill more people -- not only in this country, but also
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Reflections from a...
I've been trying to keep children out of foster care and out of institutions and with their families, with preventive services. That got passed. But there are millions of children who have hope, who have access to early childhood. Now, we are not finished, and we are not going to ever feel finished
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How civilization could...
I think there are two general methods that we could use to achieve the ability to stabilize the world against the whole spectrum of possible vulnerabilities. And we probably would need both. So, one is an extremely effective ability to do preventive policing.
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Marco Annunziata:...
for the airline industry globally every year, not to mention the impact on all of stress, inconvenience, missed meetings as we sit helplessly in an airport terminal. So how can the industrial Internet help here? We've developed a preventive maintenance system
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Leana Wen: What your...
preventive health, and end-of-life decisions. We pledge to our patients that we are here to serve you, so you have a right to know who we are. We believe that transparency can be the cure for fear. I thought some doctors would sign on and others wouldn't,
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Would You Eat Bull...
and every meal is considered preventive medicine here nearly every item is believed to have a specific effect on the body the Chinese believe that what you eat is what you treat so if you eat a pig's brain then you will treat a human's brain likewise
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Building bridges and...
mothers were now more likely to get access to preventive health care measures like ours and in the moments that followed I imagined other communities around Fiji and likely the world that could be transformed simply
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A free world needs...
Hey, this is new. Did we just invent preventive self-censorship? I think this is bigger than cartoons. This is about opinion and journalism. This, in the end, is about democracy. We now live in a world
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How to rebuild the...
were very early to step up preventive measures. Why? They learned from the Ebola, they learned from prior crises that hygiene, taking any measure you can really helps.
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Medicine's future?...
to look with these little patterns and detect disease in a much earlier stage and this is being called by Li hood the father of the fear of p4 medicine we're going to be predictive we're going to know what you're likely to have we can be preventive that prevention can be personalized and more importantly it's going to become increasingly participatory through websites like
Video examples
Dean Ornish: The world's...
in most countries. So there's a critical window of opportunity we have to make an important difference that can affect the lives of literally millions of people, and practice preventive medicine on a global scale. Heart and blood vessel diseases still kill more people -- not only in this country, but also
Video examples
Reflections from a...
I've been trying to keep children out of foster care and out of institutions and with their families, with preventive services. That got passed. But there are millions of children who have hope, who have access to early childhood. Now, we are not finished, and we are not going to ever feel finished
Video examples
How civilization could...
I think there are two general methods that we could use to achieve the ability to stabilize the world against the whole spectrum of possible vulnerabilities. And we probably would need both. So, one is an extremely effective ability to do preventive policing.
Video examples
Marco Annunziata:...
for the airline industry globally every year, not to mention the impact on all of stress, inconvenience, missed meetings as we sit helplessly in an airport terminal. So how can the industrial Internet help here? We've developed a preventive maintenance system
Video examples
Leana Wen: What your...
preventive health, and end-of-life decisions. We pledge to our patients that we are here to serve you, so you have a right to know who we are. We believe that transparency can be the cure for fear. I thought some doctors would sign on and others wouldn't,
Video examples
Would You Eat Bull...
and every meal is considered preventive medicine here nearly every item is believed to have a specific effect on the body the Chinese believe that what you eat is what you treat so if you eat a pig's brain then you will treat a human's brain likewise
Video examples
Building bridges and...
mothers were now more likely to get access to preventive health care measures like ours and in the moments that followed I imagined other communities around Fiji and likely the world that could be transformed simply
Video examples
A free world needs...
Hey, this is new. Did we just invent preventive self-censorship? I think this is bigger than cartoons. This is about opinion and journalism. This, in the end, is about democracy. We now live in a world
Video examples
How to rebuild the...
were very early to step up preventive measures. Why? They learned from the Ebola, they learned from prior crises that hygiene, taking any measure you can really helps.
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Mike Crapo
American Politician
Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.
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Alan Dershowitz
American Lawyer
I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
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Joel Fuhrman
American Scientist
There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.
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Roy Blunt
American Politician
I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.
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Frank B. Kellogg
American Politician
These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
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Brad Leone
American Chef
Life's tough on the body and I'm a big fan of preventive maintenance.
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William Foege
American Scientist
Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.
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Mike Crapo
American Politician
Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.
Quote examples
Alan Dershowitz
American Lawyer
I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.
Quote examples
Noam Chomsky
American Activist
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
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Joel Fuhrman
American Scientist
There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.
Quote examples
Roy Blunt
American Politician
I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.
Quote examples
Frank B. Kellogg
American Politician
These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.
Quote examples
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
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Brad Leone
American Chef
Life's tough on the body and I'm a big fan of preventive maintenance.
Quote examples
William Foege
American Scientist
Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.
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