The findings suggest that there are some differences between men and women, which should be taken into account when implementing specific recommendations to prevent or delay the onset of diabetes in adult population.
These morbidities were selected based on the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health (DGS Direção-Geral da Saúde) efforts to implement specific national recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment and control of these conditions, which have high prevalence and are associated with low quality of life.
As children account for an increasing percentage of the total civilian casualties from ERW and landmines, it is essential to implement specific policy and programmatic recommendations on victim assistance that meet the needs of child survivors.
We needed to determine what health professionals knew about the published research in the guidelines (knowledge), if they felt the research was strong enough to justify practice change (attitudes and intentions) and how able they felt to implement the specific recommendations and interventions with patients (skills and capabilities).
On January 20 , 2009 President Obama has a unique opportunity to renew America's promise around the world by implementing a number of specific recommendations.
One complimentary note among the blistering testimony came when SIGAR commended the DoD for implementing 79 of 100 specific recommendations it has made about how to improve facilities in Afghanistan since 2008.
This may be due to a difficulty in implementing a physician's specific recommendations because the patient did not really want to change, or because the patient is psychologically incapable or unprepared for change.
This diversity of methods provides opportunity for triangulation of findings to inform contextual understanding of the policy process and may be helpful in developing specific recommendations for developing, implementing, and evaluating policy.
Participants received praise for meeting goals and, when goals were not met, received specific recommendations for behavioral strategies to implement, along with support and encouragement.
We realize however that this approach cannot fully ascertain the degree to which the specific recommendations of the JRMs have been implemented in a particular country.
