Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs
Open Access

Review Article

A Concept of “Culture of Prevention”: A Review of Literature

¹ Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland

² Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, South Korea

*Corresponding Author:

Simo Salminen
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Arinatie 3 A, FI-00390 Helsinki, Finland
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E-mail: simo.salminen@ttl.fi

Received date: October 25, 2013; Accepted date: April 2, 2014; Published date: April 9, 2014

Citation: Simo Salminen and Jinsu Lee (2014) A Concept of “Culture of Prevention”: A Review of Literature. Occup Med Health Aff 2:154. doi: 10.4172/2329-6879.1000154

Copyright: © 2014 Simo S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The aim of this review is to analyse the use of the "culture of prevention" concept in different contexts. Firstly, we noticed that there is no generally accepted definition of this concept. Secondly, the "culture of prevention" is not operationalized. This is why we conclude that it is not a scientific concept. It is used more as a general concept in the discussion of the scientific results or as an umbrella concept for improvement measures. The "culture of prevention" concept has two important dimensions. Although on the one hand, it is used as a global concept related to, for example, conflict prevention in international politics; on the other hand, the concept refers local actions, for example eliminating the destructive effects of earth-quake disasters.

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