How can one maintain integrity in a context that mandates aggression and betrayal?
AETMIS HTA practices, context and mandate offer the conditions for such a mobilization of knowledge and actors, and their mediation, in view of supporting decision-making.
In this context, Congress mandated EPA protect public health from EDCs, but only after "develop[ing] a screening program, using appropriate validated test systems and other scientifically relevant information, to determine [harm]" [ 2].
More recently, the European Council approved the Directive 2011/24/EU on patients' rights in cross-border healthcare, as an attempt to regulate cross-border healthcare in the EU's free mobility context by mandating that patients are treated equitably on the basis of their needs rather than on the basis of their member state affiliation [ 22].
But they have done so in the context of their mandates and have steered clear of political pressures.
"You either get to a point and hang on or you have to start the cycle again and our club have to decide if that cycle starts again and in what context, what the mandate is going forward.
In the context of the mandate for the period 2010 to 2012 of the subgroup Chemical Monitoring and Emerging Pollutants (CMEP) under the Common Implementation Strategy CISS) for the WFD, a specific task was established for the elaboration of a technical report on aquatic effect-based monitoring tools.
In this context, UNICEF's mandate to reach every child, especially the most disadvantaged, becomes even more urgent.
Depression severity is often simply gauged by clinical judgement using DSM/ICD; however, this was seldom done and even in the context of a mandated tool (though not a specific depression scale), the lack of uniformity in establishing severity striking.
In the context of policies mandating the elimination of user fees, relations between the provider and the patient remained unchanged [ 9, 31, 50], marked by the existence of informal payments demanded by health workers and misunderstanding of the policy [ 9, 51].
