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preventive medicine

measures taken for disease prevention, with anticipatory actions that can be categorized as primal, primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary prevention
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Summary

preventive medicine is a medical specialty[1]. It draws 3,231 Wikipedia views per month (medical specialty category, ranking #29 of 177).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: disease prevention[3], public health[4]
  • Instance of: academic discipline[5]
  • Subclass of: health care[6], medicine[7]
  • Part of: operational risk management[8], public health[9]
  • Commons category: Preventive medicine[10]
  • ICPC 2 ID: A98[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Preventive medicine[12]
  • Described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[14]
  • Different from: health care[15]
  • Union of: list of values as qualifiers[16]
  • Has goal: prevention[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject COVID-19[18]
  • WordLift URL: http://data.wordlift.io/wl01714/entity/prevention[19]

Why It Matters

preventive medicine has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

medicine public health sports medicine

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . fr.dentist. fr.dentist. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · AntiDerangedKhanTengriAction · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'ca', 'cs', 'cy', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', '
    Basisklassifikation → 44.14, 44.11
    Svkkl authority id → h0001100-preventivni-lekarstvi, h0001083-pece-o-zdravi, 0311711-zdravotni-prevence
    Sitelink count → 44
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0311711-zdravotni-prevence, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290731|batch #290731]]"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ilhTC
    Svkkl authority id → h0001100-preventivni-lekarstvi, h0001083-pece-o-zdravi, 0311711-zdravotni-prevence
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001100-preventivni-lekarstvi, h0001083-pece-o-zdravi, 0311711-zdravotni-prevence
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001100-preventivni-lekarstvi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259576|batch #259576]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → operational risk management, public health
    Has goal → prevention
    Instance of → —
    Different from → health care
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Yso id, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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