Depressed strain (rate) values in patients with arterial hypertension might serve clinicians as potential indicators to target preventive diagnostics and potentially the extent of treatment.
Use data and technology: follow the data, including mapping the SDGs and their accompanying targets and indicators to local reports, indices, and studies.
Scientists need to relate ES categories and indicators to specific policy goals (targets).
One result of Performance Management was that much research capacity was directed towards supplying Performance Indicators to measure progress against targets.
Our framework can be used to detect gaps in available data, translate indicator systems into practical conservation, identify combined sets of indicators to monitor biodiversity in target habitats, and recognize most suitable surrogates when information for some indicators is missing.
Where possible, targets were identified for the selected indicators for distance-to-target considerations comparing current indicator values with targets.
Bachelet says a standalone goal must include targets and indicators to monitor violence against women, something that is expected to be contested by some member states.
These include: moving from niches and demonstration projects to broader norms; addressing reductions targets and indicators to guide policy and action; including policy design reflecting complexities such as time-lags, the resource nexus, and positive feedback loops; global resource governance; and convergence pathways between over-consuming and under-consuming societies.
As the United Nations Member States prepare to adopt a new, universal set of goals, targets and indicators to guide their political policies and agendas over the next 15 years, I am encouraged to see that Sustainable Development Goal #6 is dedicated to ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
The goals were derived from the Millennium Declaration, adopted by 189 UN member states in 2000, and later supplemented with targets and indicators to monitor progress (1).
