Some examples include increasing HIV prevention attendance among female inmates; increasing the percentage of inmates receiving an HIV test at admission; and improving the linkage to community treatment for HIV positive inmates leaving prison.
Thus more complete and accurate information might be included on death certificates for in-hospital deaths, thereby improving the linkage between Vital Statistics and hospital discharge data.
Improving the linkage of viral isolate data and primary care visits would strengthen future epidemiological analysis, with the more refined and nuanced linkage of exposure to outcome and also making possible predictive modeling.
There are 41 small communities that have established community-based marine protected areas through the Coremap program, and we will interview stakeholders there about how to improve the linkages involving their coastal ecosystem services.
New approaches, like the use of national health management information systems (HMIS) for HIV surveillance and management, are being proposed, which could potentially improve the linkages between surveillance data, epidemiological projections, and public health programs [26] [29].
The next challenges will be to modify current data structures, improve the linkages among relevant databases, and determine how to improve the science that we support.
The next challenges will be to modify current data structures, improve the linkages among relevant databases, incorporate as much electronically available data as possible, and determine how to improve the quality and health impact of the science that we support.
The causes of gender-based violence point to the need for multi-pronged approaches, including action at the community level to change cultural norms, decrease the acceptability of violence against women and girls, and improve the linkages between the health system and the legal system.
Additional mobilization and digitization of biodiversity data45 is needed to ensure consistent available data over large spatial extents, but strengthening research efforts to improve the linkage between monitoring, archeological and historical information17,43,44 is also an important way forward to extend the temporal coverage of available information.
This is a sustainable investment because it improves the linkage between two cities with populations of 24 million and 9 million.
