Another investigated, but not yet implemented, measure in Lerum refers to a residential area with private properties where preventive measures included slope reinforcement (drainage, embankment, and excavation).
Because all cadets reside in dormitory buildings, a close-quarters living environment, the recommended preventive measures focused on reinforcement of personal hygienic practices, social distancing, common contact surface decontamination, and wearing of surgical masks.
If GPs could play the role of health educators on preventive controls and the reinforcement of personal hygiene and other precautious measures in the community and serve as reliable resource persons to share and disseminate information to the community, the well subjects would thus be reassured.
A coordinated approach is developed to integrate three preventive measures (i.e. building reinforcement, reinforcement of road networks, and facility location of relief supplies), with the objectives of minimizing budgets and risk-induced penalties.
The preventive measures planned were slope reinforcement (drainage, embankment, and excavation), and the budget was less than 450,000 Euros.
Thus, the preventive intervention relied primarily on reinforcement of basic personal hygienic practices.
In such circumstance, DSOs are induced to reinforce the reliability of service through reliability reinforcement projects such as preventive maintenance (PM) projects.
The BVT was also tested with the landslide preventive measure, that is, soil reinforcements and erosion reduction along a short stream stretch in Lerum.
Examples of previous preventive measures are culverting of streams and ditches, excavation and filling, tree removals, erosion control, road reinforcements, and slope reinforcements (U. Lundgren, co-ordinator of landslides, flooding, and geotechnical issues, Lerum municipality, personal communication, 2013).
Participants allocated to the intervention group were offered the Health Risk Appraisal for Older Persons (HRA-O) instrument with a site-specific method for reinforcement (London: physician reminders in electronic medical record; Hamburg: one group session or two preventive home visits; Solothurn: six-monthly preventive home visits over a two-year period).
