Professor Emeritus Jorunn Grøndalen, Professor Lars Moe, and Dr. Astrid Indrebø are thanked for their efforts in initiating this project.
The inaugural Award was presented to Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad for the company's efforts in initiating company-owned programs and policies aimed at keeping present and future generations safe from HIV infection and mitigating the impact of the epidemic on vulnerable children, adolescents and young people.
Findings of this paper are valuable inputs to nursing educators, practitioners, and administrators in initiating realignment efforts geared toward developing nurses whose knowledge, skills and attitudes are responsive to the ever changing professional practice landscape.
The ACLU also played a key role in initiating a nationwide effort to reduce misconduct (such as extracting false confessions) within police departments, by publishing the report Lawlessness in Law Enforcement in 1931, under the auspices of Herbert Hoover's Wickersham Commission.
Using data from as far back as 1979, Dr. Fichtenberg and Dr. Glantz found that once the public relations effort was initiated in 1989, the number of packs of cigarettes sold per person and the death rate from heart disease dropped significantly faster than the national average.
Due to previously increasing national PTB rates, a concerted effort was initiated in 2006 to reduce PTB [ 1] and overall rates have been declining nationally and in Alabama since then, however our analysis shows adverse birth outcome rates are not decreasing in the most isolated rural regions.
In an effort to initiate employment, government colleges are sprouting up sporadically; offering skills-based training and cheaper fees than universities.
The so-called Mérida Initiative resulting from the meeting represented the largest foreign aid package in the Western Hemisphere since Plan Colombia, a multibillion-dollar effort initiated in 2000 to combat drug cartels and end the insurgency in that country.
Note: *Since measurement and systemic quality improvement efforts were initiated in 2004, we calculated the decrease in hospitalizations as result in improved diabetes control from 2005.
Effort has been initiated in large sequencing laboratories to carry out comprehensive SNP analysis in all disease candidate genes.
