Definitions of Prevention

The Expert Advisory Panel report proposed the following definitions for a preventative intervention and for preventative health spending:

A proposed definition of a preventative intervention: 
a clinical, social, behavioural, educational, environmental, fiscal or legislative intervention designed to reduce the risk of illness, disability or premature death and to promote physical, social, emotional and psychological wellbeing.

A proposed definition of preventative health spending: 
the total public & private spend on primary & secondary prevention, health promotion, family planning, school health services, national screening programmes, public health programmes for communicable and non-communicable disease, epidemiological surveillance and public health administration, in the health or social care sectors.