BACKGROUND:
Levels of prevention (primordial, primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary) are foundational to population medicine and public health planning. However, at the clinical bedside, these perceived abstract concepts perpetuate fragmented care, an increasing reliance on hospital-centric and episodic disease management models, rising costs, and missed opportunities for upstream risk reduction. In an era of constrained health budgets, increasing non-communicable disease burden, and heightened pandemic risk, there is an urgent need to translate population prevention frameworks into actionable clinical practice across the patient care continuum (1-3).

METHODS:
This interactive workshop presents a bedside translation framework that reframes levels of prevention as dynamic clinical lenses applied throughout the patient journey—from admission and acute care, through discharge, to community reintegration. Using real-world clinical scenarios, participants will work in multidisciplinary groups to: - map population levels of prevention to bedside clinical questions and decisions; - align lifestyle medicine, early risk detection, social prescribing, and continuity planning with each prevention level; and - identify promotive and preventive opportunities embedded within routine clinical workflows. The workshop integrates systems thinking and population health principles with clinical reasoning, demonstrating how preventive medicine can be operationalised without increasing clinical burden (4, 5).

RESULTS:
Participants will co-develop a Preventive Care Bedside Continuum, including a clinical heuristic, patient-flow roadmap, and implementation checklist linking population risk reduction strategies to individual patient care. Outputs will illustrate how promotive and preventive actions can be delivered across acute, subacute, and ambulatory settings, while supporting equity, continuity of care, and health system resilience (2, 3).

CONCLUSIONS:
By translating population health concepts into bedside practice, this workshop positions preventive medicine as a clinically grounded discipline of population health. This enables clinicians, managers, and policymakers to align everyday patient care with whole-of-society prevention goals, strengthening resilient, pandemic-prepared health systems while improving patient outcomes and responsible resource stewardship.