"preventive function" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the action or purpose of preventing something from happening. It is typically used in a context of systems or measures that are put in place to avoid or reduce the occurrence of a negative event or outcome. Example: The security system has a preventive function in place to deter burglars from entering the building.
Receiving children into the project who are at risk of offending or are under the minimum age of criminal responsibility allows the project to perform an important preventive function, by providing secondary / tertiary level services to prevent children from coming into conflict with the law.
But with a swing of that magnitude and suddenness, that preventive function did not take hold fast enough.
Optimism has a preventive function, as higher levels of optimism predicted lower levels of depressive symptoms in adults [ 32].
Hence, it may serve an individualised preventive function for those complained about (and especially those who have been disciplined).
Given the potential for negative long-term outcomes, psychosocial treatments that produce lasting changes in child anxiety may serve an important preventive function affecting the course of later mental health and functioning [ 6].
Indeed, increasingly national health systems are understood to include both preventive functions and the delivery of personal medical services.
OHS providers are services entrusted with essentially preventive functions.
These changes compromise the preventive functions of saliva, and lead to a greater incidence of caries after radiotherapy in the head and neck area [ 9].
Institutional imbalances: These include the question of how to deploy staff between curative and preventive functions of the health sector, as well as their distribution at various tiers and facilities of the system [ 13].
For example, in a decentralized, commercialized health sector, implementation support for preventive functions may be increasingly financed out of local government budgets (which can vary dramatically) or even facility-level revenues [ 43].
Thus, the tumor-preventive function of TP53 is not critical during the acute elimination of damaged cells but rather essential at later time points when cells that survived irradiation despite carrying genetic aberrations drive tumor progression.
