Prevention of mental disorders could be one of its outcomes. Prevention is based on specific knowledge about causal relationships between an illness and risk factors. Prevention results in measurable outcomes. Within the context of the workplace, prevention is concerned with taking action to reduce or eliminate stressors. Prevention and promotion are overlapping and related activities.
Promotion can be simultaneously preventative and vice versa.
It can occur at any age and can follow a natural disaster such as flood or fire or a man-made disaster such as war, imprisonment, assault, or rape. The rehabilitation process does not involve initial medical care. It includes a wide range of measures and activities from more basic and general rehabilitation to goal-oriented activities, for instance vocational rehabilitation. Stress is defined as a nonspecific response of the body to any demand made upon it which results in symptoms such as rise in the blood pressure, release of hormones, quickness of breathe, tightening of muscles, perspiration, and increased cardiac activity. Stress is not necessarily negative.