Teng and Gu's (2007) study argued that successful policy implementation was dependent on good linkages between different levels of government and organizations at the local level and that any missing linkage results in an "implementation gap".
Strengths included decentralized HIV service delivery with good linkages in high burden provinces.
The system operates effectively because of the maintenance of good linkages between other departments to ensure the ready sharing of statistical data.
Moreover, this hospital is managed by the Ministry of Health, Zanzibar, with very good linkages both upwards with other tertiary centres at the Mainland, Tanzania, and downwards with all the Primary Health Care Centres, spread over the region.
Aboriginal former inmates who were in prison for short periods on remand were reported to be far less likely than those exiting from long sentences to experience good linkages between prison and community services.
Both individual and public health benefits must be considered; new approaches must be convenient, ensure accurate test results, have good linkages to prevention and care services, and support wide and sustainable coverage, while still maintaining informed consent, voluntarism, and confidentiality.
Solutions to food loss and waste (FLW) rely on a combination of the right policy, application of appropriate technology, skills and knowledge, services and infrastructure, regulatory environment, social and gender equity, good linkages to and knowledge of markets.
Although constrained by a lack of IAH at higher levels of the health system, HEWs created good linkages with the education and agricultural sectors, and they quickly became identified as the 'go-to' people if any sector needed support or cooperation from others (Jimma, Ethiopia).
