Preventive maintenance plays an important role in the reliability of safety instrumented systems (SIS).
In the Slammer attack last weekend, a lack of preventive care played at least some role in creating vulnerability.
Next to non-pharmacological interventions, effective acute and preventive treatments play an important role [8].
We do not believe, however, that preventive medication played a role in their performance on the neuropsychological evaluation.
SOD along with CAT and GPx, the preventive antioxidants, play a very important role in protection against lipid peroxidation [ 179].
This may negatively affect the prevention and control of priority health problems including HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis and the upsurge of non-communicable diseases where health promotion and other preventive interventions play a vital role.
From previous studies it is evident that education, on going quality improvement projects and preventive programs play a major role in augmentation of knowledge and safe behavior of HCWs [ 10, 13, 26- 30].
Preventive measures play a minor role in the management of NNJ and without doubt, some of the methods of prevention mentioned by our respondents are definitely not useful for the purpose.
The informants related the high level of stigma to the way the national HIV preventive campaigns played on fear, by employing a "scare tactic" mainly focusing on drug users and sex workers, who were defined as "social evils" in the anti-drug and anti-prostitution policy.
Preventive measures have played a major role in the decrease of cancer mortality as well.
