prevention
Actions taken to stop something from happening, especially illness.
readingHealth
IELTS use
Frequent in public health and disease control reading passages.
Examples
- Prevention is better than cure, according to many health experts.
- Vaccination is a key method of disease prevention.
- Health education plays a major role in prevention of lifestyle diseases.
Collocations
- disease prevention
- Regular exercise is important for disease prevention.
- prevention strategy
- The government launched a new prevention strategy for obesity.
- prevention measures
- Simple prevention measures like hand washing reduce infection.
- prevention programme
- Schools run prevention programmes for teenage smoking.
Word family
- Noun
- prevention
- Verb
- prevent
- Adjective
- preventive
Paraphrases
- stopping illness before it starts: Simpler explanation, suitable for B1.
- avoiding disease: More direct synonym.
- prophylactic measures: Technical term, occasionally in reading passages.
Common mistakes
- Prevention of disease is important for health. to Prevention of disease is important for public health.. Add 'public' to make it more natural in IELTS context.
- They do prevention of the flu. to They engage in flu prevention.. Use noun form with 'of' or use verbs.
- Prevention is better than treatment. to Prevention is better than cure.. Common fixed expression; 'treatment' is not idiomatic here.