We show how various urban design scenarios can be generated in an interactive manner allowing a balance between the esthetics of the urban designs and a set of indicators describing the provision of relevant ecosystem services.
The Forum's index is based on more than 40 indicators, covering the provision of health care and education, as well as policies that safeguard children against exploitation by adults.
The findings depict partial order ranking as a promising technique to support decision making in order to find priority scenarios and indicators where the provision of ES can be enhanced by establishing ACS.
In the general form, the provision of plants is assessed by two indicators: 1) The potential of chemical element (nutrient potential)—an energy characteristic, defined as the change in the Gibbs energy of the reaction 2) The potential buffering capacity of soils in relation to the elements of plant nutrition.
In order to understand the effectiveness and successful outcomes of the provision of care, individual, social and economic indicators will need to be examined.
The ratio of teachers in upper secondary schools to young people between 15 and 20 years of age was used as an indicator for the provision of upper secondary education.
The fifth indicator assessed the provision of critical life saving services for pregnant women as measured by caesarean section rates in the district.
One indicator rewards the provision of the following advice to those suffering from mental health conditions, " routine health promotion and prevention advice appropriate to their [i.e. the patient's] age, gender and health status" and quite what kind of advice giving this is intended to encourage is unclear.
In the UK, the Quality and Outcomes Framework incentivizes providers for the provision of high-quality care, against explicit clinical indicators and defined targets, and helps to standardize improvements in the delivery of primary medical services.
The PIs described in Table 2 are process indicators related to the provision of primary care services that, using the taxonomy of Donabedian [ 34], capture two dimensions of quality in health care delivery: the ease with which persons can obtain care, i.e. accessibility; and the ability to lower the cost of care without diminishing attainable improvements in health, i.e. efficiency.
Results from similar analyses of associations between the provision of money or other material goods and indicators of mental health at follow-up are summarised in Table 7. Grandfathers who helped their grandchildren in this way had slightly better MCS scores at follow up.
