preventability
- noun
- /prɪˌvɛntəˈbɪlɪti/
- The preventability of injuries at work can be significantly improved with proper training and safety measures.
- causality, severity, and preventability
- severity and preventability
Examples
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The Health Beliefs Questionnaire (HBQ) was designed to assess a person's perception of the preventability, prognosis, contagiousness, social cost, and economic cost of a variety of diseases (e.g., AIDS, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc.).
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We hereby report a case of bullous drug eruption due to metronidazole with an established causality, severity, preventability, and predictability in a 99-year-old male.
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The preventability analysis revealed the ADR to be 'not preventable.'
Academic text (2007) -
However, the clear preventability of Eliza Jane Scovill's death is why my sympathy for her mother only goes so far.
Blog text (29) -
The only HBQ item included in the analyses was one assessing the perceived preventability of AIDS.
Academic text (1990) -
We also establish the causality, severity, and preventability of the suspected ADR.
Academic text (2007) -
While the findings suggest that it may be the perception of AIDS preventability that mediates the derogation of the victim, no direct test of this was made in the current study.
Academic text (1990) -
Results are discussed in terms of the possibility that health-education programs emphasizing preventability may inadvertently increase people's tendency to blame the victim.
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The causality, severity, and preventability were assessed using the Naranjo, Hartwig scale, and Modified Schumock and Thornton scales, respectively.
Academic text (2007) -
We carried out the causality, severity, and preventability assessments as per the Naranjo algorithm, Hatrwig scale, and Modified Schumock and Thornton scales, respectively.
Academic text (2007)
How Preventable
Surface Forms
Morphology
preventability = preventable (transparent) = prevent + able + ity
Formed from the adjective 'preventable' + '-ity'; the meaning ('degree to which something can be prevented') is directly compositional and predictable.
Etymology
Preventability comes from the verb prevent, which originally meant 'to come before' a problem and stop it, and the parts -able ('can') and -ity ('the quality of') turn it into a noun. So, preventability means the 'quality of being able to be prevented', or how much something 'can be stopped before it happens'.