The different prevention science.

Comments on the similarities between prevention research (R. F. Mu?oz [Ed.], 1996; and K. Heller, see record 84-09313) and the field of safety research. Both can be defined as disciplines focused on the systematic study of precursors of risk and protective factors, and both use telic methods of analysis, meaning that they begin with the event to be explained, and use the event to define its antecedent(s). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)