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Illness Prevention: Altering lifestyles and environmental factors with the intent of preventing or reducing the risk of various illnesses and diseases.

Primary Prevention: Activities geared to a sample of the general population to prevent child abuse and neglect from occurring. Also referred to as 'universal prevention.'

Recordable Illness-Injury: All occupational injuries and illnesses that require more than basic first aid treatment, or deaths that occurred in the workplace.

Prevention: Actions that reduce exposure or other risks, keep people from getting sick, or keep disease from getting worse.

Pollution Prevention: Actively identifying equipment, processes, and activities which generate excessive wastes or use toxic chemicals and then making substitutions, alterations, or product improvements. Conservi . . . View Full Definition

Secondary Prevention: Activities targeted to prevent breakdowns and dysfunctions among families who have been identified as at risk for abuse and neglect.

Tertiary Prevention: Treatment efforts geared to address situations where child maltreatment has already occurred with the goals of preventing child maltreatment from occurring in the future and of avoiding the . . . View Full Definition

Watershed And Flood Prevention Operations: A program area of the Natural Resources Conservation Service that includes Flood Prevention Operations (under the Flood Control Act of 1944, P.L. 78-534), Emergency Watershed Protection, and . . . View Full Definition

Watershed And Flood Prevention Act Of 1954: P.L. 83-566 (August 4, 1954) established USDA’s small watershed program administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service: purposes of projects built under this authority include fl . . . View Full Definition

Universal Prevention: Activities and services directed at the general public with the goal of stopping the occurrence of maltreatment before it starts. Also referred to as 'primary prevention.'