Countries can help to shift public-policy concerns from the short to the longer-term, and scientifically backed environmental targets (such as a 2 degrees centigrade rise in global temperatures) can create political momentum and a focus for mobilising action.
If secession and war do come to pass, then New Orleans, a place of tactical importance, will be a focus for military action.
"If it's school-by-school, a complete break-up of national pay and conditions, then I think that would be a focus for industrial action by our union".
Action points were coded for (a) focus of action, using predetermined categories of care; and (b) responsibility for action.
When a literature review provided no clear focus for action when patients are not at target, we initiated a study to identify characteristics of patients and providers associated with achieving target BP levels in community-based practice.
But the MDGs are a rallying point, a focus for government and civil society action.
Cities are one new focus for action.
This can be done using an interpretative approach that requires contextualization of differences to meaningfully inform environmental monitoring programs and provide focus for action.
On recent visits to 20 AIDS projects in three African countries, I found that where the virus is being stopped, sexual behavior is not the only focus for action.
