Recommendations Of Report Research Articles

Recommendations of the Queensland children's gender service external evaluation and their implications for health policy in Australia.

To review the evaluation process and the implications for Australian health policy of the 2024 external clinical service evaluation of the Queensland Children's Gender Service (QCGS) and its recommendations. Failing to perform a systematic review of the relevant literature, and adhering to discredited and ideologically based guidelines, the Review made recommendations lacking evidentiary support that have major implications for Queensland and other Australian health services. The evaluation report's recommendations reveal eight areas of concern about the clinic's functioning.

Analyzing UNESCO’s Report on Global Educational Challenges Amidst The COVID-19 Pandemic

This article presents an analysis of the UNESCO report on global educational challenges in the context of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. This paper examines the ways in which the pandemic has served to exacerbate pre-existing educational and gender inequalities, as outlined in the UNESCO report. The paper considers the United Nations' assessment and response strategies, evaluating their effectiveness in mitigating these disparities. A detailed analysis of the UNESCO report's findings and recommendations reveals significant deficiencies in addressing educational inequities during the pandemic. Moreover, it elucidates the broader implications for equitable access to education.

Leveraging Policy Solutions for Diabetes Disparities: Suggestions for Improving the National Clinical Care Commission Report's Recommendations for Hispanic/Latino Populations.

In the U.S., Hispanic/Latino populations face increased disparities in both the prevalence and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This article critically examines the multifaceted nature of T2DM disparities among Hispanic/Latino populations in the U.S. and identifies key factors contributing to T2DM prevalence within these communities, including socioeconomic status, cultural influences, and healthcare access. Utilizing a modified expert consensus procedure, we evaluate the ways in which the National Clinical Care Commission (NCCC) recommendations apply to the Hispanic/Latino community as well as propose recommendations for improved efficacy. Through a comprehensive analysis of government-community health initiatives, food security, environmental exposures, and housing inequalities, we emphasize the need for targeted interventions and health policies to effectively address and dismantle these disparities. Overall, while the National Clinical Care Commission's recommendations provide a valuable framework for the implementation of policies pertaining to diabetes management and prevention in the general population, our analysis suggests that recommendations may be strengthened by considering the unique cultural, social, and economic needs of the Hispanic/Latino population moving forward.

Breathing life into the Sonnet report

Kathy Oxtoby looks at the Sonnet report's recommendations for the development of general practice

Taking stock: Is gene drive research delivering on its principles?

Gene drive technology has been recognized for its potential to provide durable and cost-effective solutions for previously intractable problems in public health, conservation, and agriculture. In recognition of the rapid advances in this field, in 2016 the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued a report making several recommendations aimed at researchers, funders, and policymakers for the safe and responsible research and development of gene drive technology. Subsequently, in 2017 sixteen global organizations self-identifying as sponsors and supporters of gene drive research became public signatories committed to the 'Principles for Gene Drive Research' which were inspired by the report's recommendations. Herein we reflect on the progress of gene drive research in relation to the ethical principles laid out and committed to by the signatories to the Principles. Our analysis indicates high levels of alignment with the Principles in the field of gene drive research. The manuscript also discusses the Gene Drive Research Forum, which had its genesis in the publication of the Principles. Discussions between participants at the latest meeting of the Forum point to the work that lies ahead for gene drive research in line with the Principles. Going forward the gene drive research community can productively focus on: i) safety and efficacy criteria for open release, ii) risk assessment frameworks and methods, iii) more downstream technical, regulatory and policy considerations for field evaluations and implementation, iv) continued transparency and developing mechanisms of accountability, and v) strengthening capacity in locales of potential release and expected drive spread.

Effect of Cost Efficiency Restructuring Strategy on Financial Performance of Coffee Cooperative Societies in Meru County

This study sought to assess the effect of cost efficiency restructuring strategy on organizational performance of coffee cooperative societies in Meru County. The study was guided by the resource based theory. The research targeted top management team in the 42 coffee cooperative societies in Meru County, the study adopted a descriptive research design with a sample size of 121 participants who were the managers of the cooperatives, the study utilized census to get information from the respondents. The data gathering tools were structured questionnaire including both open-ended and closed-ended questions, as well as a quantitative part using a 5-point Likert scale. Quantitative methods which included measures of central tendency and dispersion such as Mean and standard deviation, as well as inferential statistics were used for data analysis and interpretation. The data collected was presented through; Textual method a narrative description of data gathered and Tabular Method a systematic arrangement of information into columns and rows. Finally, SPSS Version 27 was used to process and analyze the collected data, and its results informed the report's discussion, conclusions, and recommendations. The study established that cost efficiency restructuring had a positive significant relationship with the financial performance of coffee cooperative societies in Meru County. The study concluded that elimination of non-profitable products/services and reduction of inventory, improvement of business strategy through innovation management enhances financial performance. The study recommended that the organization should consider purchase of new equipment to cater for most profitable market niche. The current study suggests that further studies should be done that focus on different turnaround strategies on organizational performance

'For NHS dentistry to survive they need to get onside with the report's recommendations, and quickly'

'For NHS dentistry to survive they need to get onside with the report's recommendations, and quickly'

Paying for Nursing Home Quality: An Elusive But Important Goal.

Paying for Nursing Home Quality: An Elusive But Important Goal.

Leading Multisector Partnerships to Address Social Determinants of Health and Advance Health Equity for an Underresourced Heart Failure Patient Population.

Addressing the social determinants of health (SDoH) to advance health equity for persons with heart failure is a complex endeavor. Best results are achieved in partnership with multiple sectors beyond just the health care industry. We describe the evolution of an academic-practice-community partnership addressing the SDoH to advance health equity for a population of underresourced heart failure patients. Using a bundled approach to care delivery within a nurse-led interprofessional collaborative practice model and cultivating multisector partnerships, we initiated a systematic approach to addressing the SDoH within a heart failure clinic in the southeastern United States. Through our SDoH program, our clinic has improved access to care, medications, and food for our patients, thus advancing health equity and reducing hospital readmissions. Our multisector partnerships to address SDoH and advance health equity provide a foundation to improve population health outcomes for underresourced persons with heart failure. An SDoH program such as ours would not have been possible without strong leadership and collaboration of colleagues from multiple disciplines and sectors. In keeping with the Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity report, we showcase our actions consistent with the report's recommendations.

Nursing students' views on the report's recommendations

Nursing students' views on the report's recommendations

Waste Management for Lunar Resources Activities: Toward a Circular Lunar Economy

Space resources activities are currently the objective of a thriving cross-disciplinary global effort aimed at assessing their role and potential in the future of humankind. New innovative mission concepts, legal frameworks, and advanced technologies are being actively developed and proposed with the final goal of enabling profitable and efficient space resource utilization. The immediate location for these impacts is the Moon. In sight of this bright cohort of imminent perspectives, it is imperative for the global community to properly assess the potential effects and consequences of the forthcoming space resources activities, with the goal of including sustainability in the foundations of the ongoing progress and ensuring its enforcement in every future endeavor. Within this context, this article addresses the topics of Moon mining waste management and a lunar circular economy as key issues in the sustainable utilization of space resources. The most promising technologies are considered for lunar resources extraction and processing—with special focus on water—correlating their waste generation potential to the scale of the efforts implemented and to the projected availability of the resources of interest. Importance is also given to the corollary activities of space mining—such as logistics and transport operations—for their implications in waste management. Protocols and technologies with the lower waste generation potential are identified and further scenarios are elaborated for waste handling, reduction, reuse, and recycle, as well as end-of-life strategies for mining plants. This report's recommendations are proposed for the development of incremental regulation for waste management, including but not limited to the definition of common areas of noninterest for waste disposal and regulatory obligations for conducting impact assessments before the establishment of mining activities. Please note that this abstract is submitted under the auspices of the Space Generation Advisory Council, as part of the activities of the Space Exploration Project Group.

Policy Progress in Reducing Sodium in the American Diet, 2010-2019.

Most Americans consume dietary sodium exceeding age-specific government-recommended targets of 1,500-2,300 mg/day per person. The majority (71%) of US dietary sodium comes from restaurant and packaged foods. Excess sodium intake contributes to hypertension and cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United States. This review summarizes evidence for policy progress to reduce sodium in the US food supply and the American diet. We provide a historical overview of US sodium-reduction policy (1969-2010), then examine progress toward implementing the 2010 National Academy of Medicine (NAM) sodium report's recommendations (2010-2019). Results suggest that the US Food and Drug Administration made no progress in setting mandatory sodium-reduction standards, industry made some progress in meeting voluntary targets, and other stakeholders made some progress on sodium-reduction actions. Insights from countries that have significantly reduced population sodium intake offer strategies to accelerate US progress toward implementing the NAM sodium-reduction recommendations in the future.

RWJF's future of nursing's campaign for action: A content analysis of social determinants of health activities.

The RWJF-sponsored 2010 report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (FoN), fostered creation of the Campaign for Action (Campaign) as a mechanism to monitor and enact the FoN report's recommendations. Influenced by RWJF's Culture of Health initiative, Campaign efforts refocused to include the social determinants of health (SDOH), with an additional action area entitled "Building Healthier Communities" (BHC). This study describes nursing activities in the BHC action area relative to the six initial FoN core action areas and assesses the extent to which nursing actions in the BHC action area align with public health conceptions of the SDOH. A content analysis was conducted of the RWJF's Campaign issue blog posts on 51 state Action Coalition websites from January 2011 to August 2018. Results demonstrate a decline in blog posts among the six FoN action areas over time compared to an increase in the BHC action area. BHC blog posts of nursing activities included predominantly stories and events, with few interventions. Although the Campaign's definition of the SDOH aligns with definitions from public health, posted actions do not. Re-evaluation of the Campaign' tagging process is needed so system-level conceptualizations can be integrated into the Campaign's next iteration for categorizing SDOH-driven interventions.

Building a Vision for Reproducibility in the Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystem: Leveraging Community Efforts

The scientific computing community has long taken a leadership role in understanding and assessing the relationship of reproducibility to cyberinfrastructure, ensuring that computational results - such as those from simulations - are reproducible, that is, the same results are obtained when one re-uses the same input data, methods, software and analysis conditions. Starting almost a decade ago, the community has regularly published and advocated for advances in this area. In this article we trace this thinking and relate it to current national efforts, including the 2019 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine report on Reproducibility and Replication in Science. To this end, this work considers high performance computing workflows that emphasize workflows combining traditional simulations (e.g. Molecular Dynamics simulations) with in situ analytics. We leverage an analysis of such workflows to (a) contextualize the 2019 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine report's recommendations in the HPC setting and (b) envision a path forward in the tradition of community driven approaches to reproducibility and the acceleration of science and discovery. The work also articulates avenues for future research at the intersection of transparency, reproducibility, and computational infrastructure that supports scientific discovery.

En quête de financement pour la création d’une clinique externe et d’un service social comme parachèvement de la désinstitutionnalisation à l’Hôpital Saint-Michel-Archange de Beauport, 1961–72

The release of the report of the Commission d'étude des hôpitaux psychiatriques (Bédard report) in 1962 was long considered a transformative moment in the history of Québec psychiatry. But recent historiography suggests that deinstitutionalization in Québec features initiatives dating back to the early 20th century. Following this line of argumentation, we suggest that the Bédard report was primarily a political tool to obtain funding in the wake of the 1961 Hospital Insurance Act, and that the report's recommendations built upon ongoing changes. This article proposes a new reading of the commission's report on Beauport's Hôpital Saint-Michel-Archange, and offers a new perspective on deinstitutionalization in Québec. Data gathered from medical records help illustrate the organizational changes that occurred between 1962 and 1972 through new public funding.

The Trafficking in Persons Report: Recommendations for Uganda

The United States Department of State's Annual Trafficking in Persons Report has revolutionized the fight against the scourge of human trafficking. Nations around the globe continue to make significant strides in prosecuting traffickers, protecting victims, and preventing human trafficking. Uganda is one of those nations. Currently ranked 2, Uganda is poised to become the next tier 1 nation and the only African nation to achieve that honor. With the development of a partnership with the Human Trafficking Institute, a well-functioning justice system, and key personnel in various offices, Uganda is just a a few key changes away from breaking into Tier 1 status. While the 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report praised Uganda for various efforts it is taking to combat human trafficking, more needs to be done. This Paper identifies the Report's key recommendations and then elaborates on how Uganda can implement them. Most pressingly, Uganda must increase prosecution efforts, particularly against government officials; create a formal mechanism to identify victims and provide funding for their care; authorize an official entity to lead anti-trafficking efforts; increase training for embassy staff and all front-line officials; increase and improve regulation of recruitment agencies; and accede to the 2000 UN TIP Protocol.

Back to the Future: The Uses of Television in the Digital Age

This article considers some of the present-day issues, challenges and possibilities facing television broadcasting via a critical examination of the recently published Goldsmiths report on the future of public service television in the twenty-first century. Focusing mainly on UK terrestrial broadcasters (BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5), the article summarises and expands on the report's key findings and recommendations, particularly in relation to questions concerning digitalisation, content, diversity, quality, marketisation, funding and national and regional heritage. The article argues that, despite the rise of the Internet and the proliferation of digital platforms, television viewing remains a common source of information and entertainment and is characterised by meaningful continuities. Additionally, the article outlines the vitally important role played by David Puttnam, chair of the Goldsmiths inquiry, in defending public service television through his active engagement with relevant parliamentary committees and as a widely respected media professional. Finally, the article reflects on the continuing relevance of the 1962 Pilkington Report on Broadcasting, which was similarly commissioned in order to evaluate the purposes of television. In so doing, the article suggests that Pilkington's criticisms of creeping commercialism and the ensuing regulatory proposals still represent a cogent engagement with the idea of public service broadcasting as a primary facilitator of deliberative democracy.

Ethics of Human Genome Editing.

Advances in human genome editing, in particular the development of the clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 method, have led to increasing concerns about the ethics of editing the human genome. In response, the US National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine constituted a multidisciplinary, international committee to review the current status and make recommendations. I was a member of that committee, and the core of this review reflects the committee's conclusions. The committee's report, issued in February 2017, recommends the application of current ethical and regulatory standards for gene therapy to somatic (nonheritable) human genome editing. It also recommends allowing experimental germline genome editing to proceed if ( a) it is restricted to preventing transmission of a serious disease or condition, ( b) the edit is a modification to a common DNA sequence known not to be associated with disease, and ( c) the research is conducted under a stringent set of ethical and regulatory requirements. Crossing the so-called red line of germline genome editing raises important bioethical issues, most importantly, serious concern about the potential negative impact on individuals with disabilities. This review highlights some of the major ethical considerations in human genome editing in light of the report's recommendations.

Nurses Are Key in Preventing Deadly Diagnostic Errors in Cardiovascular Diseases.

Nurses Are Key in Preventing Deadly Diagnostic Errors in Cardiovascular Diseases.

The UN World Water Development Report 2016, Water and Jobs: A Critical Review

The UN World Water Development Report 2016, <i>Water and Jobs</i>: A Critical Review