The concepts of disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management involve the development, improvement, and application of policies, strategies, and practices to minimize disaster risks throughout society.
Such policy makers were seen to be distant from poor and under-resourced areas of the country, further exacerbating barriers to the development and application of appropriate policies for these areas.
One of the main challenges for the development and application of odor policies in non-urban residential areas is the identification of a single easy-measurable gas that can be used as a marker of a complex mixture of odorant and irritant chemicals that causes annoyance and affects the well-being and health of non-urban residents.
We believe that a more explicit recognition of the selection and application of policy instruments could have reinforced policy intent.
We were recently commissioned by WHO to develop a tool that would guide the development and application of Health in All Policies [ 53].
Prof. Smith's research focuses on environmental and health issues in developing countries, particularly those related to health-damaging and climate-changing air pollution from household energy use, and includes field measurement and health-effects studies in developing countries as well as development and application of tools for international policy assessments.
Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis aims to provide a decisive push to the further development and application of innovative and specific comparative methods for the improvement of policy analysis.
Knowledge translation should be implemented throughout the development and application of research knowledge to inform HIV clinical practice, programming and policy.
With the new government policies in alternative energy utilization and energy efficiency, development and application of new technologies to fit the tropical climate have generated interest.
Finally, knowledge translation should be implemented throughout the development and application of research knowledge generated from these priorities to inform clinical practice, programming and policy.
