The initial formulation in Finland, taking its inspiration from the successful North Karelia programmes [ 53], emphasises initiatives at the community level which form a package of measures that simultaneously promote health, welfare and productivity [ 52, 54].
Responding to the initial report, the Carbon Tracker Initiative emphasised the need to test business plans in line with a 2C warming limit.
Australian doctrine emphasised the importance of initiative in its junior leaders and small units were trained in aggressive patrolling, particularly at night.
4 The ending preventable maternal mortality (EPMM) initiative has emphasised the importance of reducing gender inequities and promoting equitable access of women and girls to quality reproductive health services (including maternal health) to reduce maternal mortality.
During the last decades several international initiatives have emphasised that education is an imperative for societies to become more sustainable.
Recent government educational initiatives have emphasised the need for lifelong learning to facilitate and equip nurses with the appropriate knowledge and skills to operate in a dynamic healthcare delivery system.
In the UK various Departments of Health initiatives have emphasised the need to give greater voice and influence to users of NHS services, and patients are expected to assume greater responsibility for their personal health [ 2, 3].
In some countries such as the USA [ 118], the UK [ 76], Australia [ 79], France [ 119], Germany [ 120], and Italy [ 14], legislation and government policies support SDM. However the need for further training, tools, and evidence is emphasised and SDM-related initiatives and studies need to be sponsored.
As Sun's chief technology officer, Greg Papadopoulos, notes, this was the same thinking behind operating systems such as Unix, which was designed by some of Sun's top executives in the 1970s to manage separate pieces of hardware as if they were all part of a single computer.For Sun, the initiative emphasises the company's head-long dive into distributed computing.
Although the Initiative emphasises the role of imaging in the assessment of biomarkers, medical imaging also has other applications in drug discovery: "a molecular imaging probe can be used to determine target occupancy before and after administration of a new drug candidate, which helps to assess binding affinity and to determine correct dosages" [98].
