At both the EU and the member state level, typically there is more than one department responsible for the area of IEQ, for example, the departments of housing, public health, environment, and trade.
For example, the departments of hemato-oncology and the cardio-thoracic surgery implemented a standardized prophylaxis protocol for transplanted patients, which led to a significant decrease in the number of cases.
For example, officials at the department of industry will promise that certain parts can be brought in tax-free, only to be contradicted by tax or customs officials, he says.
For example, respondents from the department of pediatrics reported that they have repeatedly requested for cephalosporins – a broad-spectrum antibiotic, which is effective in treating most of the aggressive infections affecting their patients, but this has not been addressed due to lack of funds.
For example, one group in the department of genetics investigating the silencing of chromatin has been shut down after 4 years of successful work because the tenure of its leading assistant professor has been canceled.
Its actual spending has been less — for example, the department has handed out only $172.5 billion of the $250 billion designated for bank capital injections.
Sleep-deprived doctors who scarf candy bars for lunch "tend to feel inhibited in counseling others when they aren't exactly setting an example," said Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and a member of the lifestyle medicine college's board of advisers.
This example is highlighted here, as the department of defense of the US sponsored a National Academy of Science of the USA report on 'animal models for assessing countermeasures to bioterrorism agents', published in December 2011 (NRC 2011).
Hicks pointed to this as an example of the department's lack of transparency, which he said is leading to an overall decline in trust in its management of the federal student loan program.
