4 - Refinement of the plan by comparing it to existing comprehensive plans We added a category for monitoring which included monitoring of tobacco industry activities and monitoring of effects of implemented interventions.
The investigated high resolution remote-sensing based approach provides some advantages to map surface types of the urban environment for a first screening, monitoring and evaluation of implemented measures of the BAR and can therefore support existing field mappings.
The responsibility of funding agencies is a concern too, because they require numerous financial and administrative conditions for money use, but they rarely require quality monitoring and assessment of implemented programs as key indicators to evaluate the appropriate use of fundings.
These informations should help to identify priority areas for evaluation, monitoring, and improvement of implemented disease control strategies.
They include effective and sustained political commitment and planning; sufficient and sustained budget allocation; training, supervision, monitoring and evaluation of implemented policies; multisectoral participation; and strong governance and accountability.
Accredited clinics/health centres were purposively sampled because they are relatively less complex and could easily be monitored for impact of implemented interventions.
New preventive efforts should mainly focus on prenatal screening, development of effective vaccines, and establishing a surveillance program to monitor the effectiveness of implemented preventive measures.
Preventive efforts should mainly focus on prenatal screening, development of effective vaccines, and establishing a surveillance program to monitor the effectiveness of implemented preventive measures.
These examples demonstrate the feasibility of conducting population-based surveillance to monitor the effects of implemented vaccination programs in reducing the extent of invasive disease caused by 2 common bacterial pathogens in an Arctic region.
