prevengan

Prevengan is a risk-management concept and practice emphasizing proactive prevention of harm through anticipatory planning, monitoring, and response. The term is used across public health, safety, technology, and governance to describe an approach that prioritizes stopping hazards before they cause damage.

Core principles include forward-looking risk assessment, prevention-by-design, continuous monitoring, early detection, stakeholder engagement, data-driven decision-making, and proportionate response. Prevengan often relies on horizon scanning, scenario planning, and defense-in-depth strategies to reduce uncertainty.

Applications span public health (epidemic surveillance, vaccination policy), cybersecurity (vulnerability management, anomaly detection, patching), critical infrastructure resilience (mitigation of natural hazards, climate adaptation), workplace safety (hazard controls, safety culture), and public policy (risk communication, fail-safe governance).

Critiques note potential for overreach, surveillance concerns, unintended consequences, the need for credible data, resource requirements, and difficulty in measuring prevention outcomes. There is no universal standard for prevengan, and interpretations vary by sector. As a cross-disciplinary concept, prevengan continues to evolve with advances in data analytics, systems thinking, and governance.