In 45 states -- including Maryland and Virginia -- this conversation would include a process to elicit your choices to receive or forego various interventions and document those choices in your medical record.
Descriptive research has demonstrated the feasibility of CGA interventions, and documented a large range of undetected care needs [ 31- 34].
VPD surveillance systems have the potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of VPD prevention and control programs by targeting interventions and documenting their effect on the population.
Previous studies have assessed factors associated with low utilisation of health-based interventions and documented socio-cultural factors, economic constraints, negative perceptions, poor quality of care and long distances to health units [ 3- 6].
Future research could address these limitations, investigate ways to target or optimize built-environment interventions, and document changes over time or measure the effectiveness of specific policies or actions.
We urge the environmental health community to take up the challenge of developing a global environmental health index that will incorporate human health into available "planetary health" metrics and that can be used as a policy tool to evaluate the impact of interventions and document spatial and temporal shifts in the healthfulness of local areas.
The methodology used in the review included: Detailed analysis of UNICEF's documentation, including reports on UNICEF's programme in Northern Uganda, and project descriptions, progress reports for the Hunter-funded interventions and related documents from UNICEF and the Government of Uganda.
Process evaluation identifies the more effective intervention strategies and documents the challenges to be overcome for full implementation.
A baseline survey was conducted in the intervention and comparison districts to assess health indicators, to describe existing interventions and to document barriers and facilitators to skilled care.
23 Some of the infrastructure, processes, approaches, and personnel could be adapted and adopted to establish and/or strengthen community-based disease surveillance, monitor public health interventions, and generally, document public health outcomes.
