It initiates early implementation by a national-level working group which involves districts in planning, reviewing the early implementation phase, and planning for expansion.
Finally, the transition of record keeping from pediatric to adult care must be addressed whether by mandate [ 5] or by implementation of national or regionally integrated health records or even by patient-driven solutions such as personally controlled health records [ 6].
In addition, a secretary general oversaw an information service, intelligence-gathering about tobacco control organizations, and the implementation of ICOSI programs by national manufacturers' associations (NMAs), which played a key role in ICOSI [ 61, 62].
Screening can be promoted by training ED staff to better recognize child abuse, improving communication skills, appointing an attendant specifically for child abuse, explicit support of the screening policy by management, and by national implementation of an approved protocol and validated screening instrument.
The whole process of design, implementation and evaluation was reinforced by national and international political, administrative and technical supports (Table 5).> We found that Chagas disease vector surveillance can be integrated into the PHC services after the vertical interventions.
Its overall goal is to promote the optimal growth and development of children beginning at birth.The 21C Schools concept was the idea of Yale University Professor Edward F. Zigler and developed for national implementation by Zigler Center Associate Director Dr. Matia Finn-Stevenson.
REDS was then expanded to integrate other health concerns impacting women and children and has now been adopted for national implementation by the Government.
The implementation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) of national air quality control measures mandated by the Clean Air Act (initially in 1970, and strengthened in 1977 and 1990) (Clean Air Act 1970) generated substantial economic, environmental, and health benefits: air pollution was reduced, decreasing the burden of cancer and other diseases (U.S. EPA 2011).
During the course of our own research we have noticed that breast tumours are becoming smaller through earlier diagnosis, partly because of greater patient awareness and probably also as a result of the UK Breast Screening Programme, introduced in 1988, with national implementation by the mid-1990s.
The negative correlation between PPP-adjusted GDP per capita and suicide rates in both developing and developed European countries might be explained not only by economic development but by the implementation of national mental health policies and infrastructures 21 and the perception of social integration of European citizens.
