title: [Preventive behavior: the role of the environment and the capacity to adapt].
abstract: Preventive behavior attempts to maintain an optimal general state. When the degree of psychological and social constraints exceed the adaptational capacities of a subject one discovers in that individual a negative global perception, essentially with regards to the environment that can instigate diverse problems and accidents.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: Le comportement préventif: Rôle de l'environnement et capacité d'adaptation