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The Prevention Research Center is an organization of researchers whose common goal is the advancement of Prevention Science; the study of the mechanisms by which adverse health outcomes may be prevented by early intervention, education, environmental change, and policy change.

Research at the Center examines the full range of prevention activities:

Primary Prevention - Preventing problems before they start
Secondary Prevention - Preventing problems among those at risk
Tertiary Prevention - Preventing continued problems once they start

Research at the Center considers the full scope of preventive goals

Universal Prevention - Directed at all segments of society
Selective Prevention - Targeted at at-risk populations
Indicated Prevention - Targeted at high-risk individuals

The Center's research program integrates theoretical and empirical work from the academic disciplines of anthropology, economics, epidemiology, public health, policy science, psychology, and sociology. The goal of the basic scientific research is to understand the individual, social, political, and environmental circumstances related to adverse health outcomes. Basic scientific research into the chracteristics of individuals that predispose them to health risks are integrated with studies of social milieu and environmental structures in which these risks are too often realized in injury and death.

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