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Deterrence
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The undertaking of activities or interventions to keep some negative event, such as an illness or injury, from occurring.
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In neuropsychology, interventions have been designed to aid in the prevention of many different types of injury or illness. There are three major types of prevention:
Primary prevention: Interventions to prevent a disease or injury before it ever occurs
Secondary prevention: Intervention to reduce the impact of a disease or injury that has occurred, often by detecting and treating the problem as soon as it occurs
Tertiary prevention: Interventions aimed at lessening effects of ongoing injury or illness
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Walsh, J. (2018). Prevention. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_9162
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