This is not straightforward, because the disseminated data need to be protected against several privacy threats, while remaining useful for subsequent analysis tasks.
Additional warning systems exist for ashfall and lahars; rapid detection warning systems are in place for lahars on Mt. Ruapehu (Sherburn and Bryan [1999]; Leonard et al. [2008]), and ashfall hazard maps are disseminated as needed.
They can also disseminate the needed info publicly or privately as needed (think personalized hospital, airport alerts).
The results can be quantified in various ways, but evaluation should concentrate on the resources used, the degree of satisfaction among all the parties involved and optimal management of demand, which will help to disseminate the need for a rational resource use.
The EC's online science and technology information service Cordis is one means through which EC science communication is disseminated, and it needs plenty of writers.
"The Voice of Hope Event," first in a series of cutting edge presentations to be offered by The Joey Lowenstein Foundation, is a vital step in disseminating information needed to connect those working to overcome autism.
However, the same strain was responsible for different clinical outcomes in each of the 11 patients: 2 cases were congenital and lethal, 9 cases occurred in immunocompetent adults (5 patients, 1 of whom died, had disseminated toxoplasmosis and needed hospitalization; and 4 had less severe disease with no life-threatening signs or need for hospitalization).
High-quality randomized controlled trials evaluating interventions that are tailored to the unique needs of young women, and that can be disseminated broadly, are urgently needed to address the unmet needs of this high-risk group.
Only when culturally appropriate initiatives and education programs have been developed and disseminated that meet the needs of New Zealand's different communities is the national priority likely to be realised.
Near-universal literacy, television and internet penetration mean reliable information about how to deal with an outbreak is much more easily disseminated to those who need it.
