Information partnership

Public health nurses have a central function in the public health system and, as such, become invaluable resources both to the community and to other nurses during times of disaster (see chapter 31, The Role and Preparation of the Public Health Nurse for Disaster Response, for further discussion). Public health nurses are expert in population health care and routinely conduct disease surveillance, implement programs in health promotion, and are knowledgeable in healthy standards for food, water, and sanitation. Public health nurses working at the local level are extremely dedicated to serving their communities, routinely form informal partnerships that are essential for disease surveillance, and effectively use informal communication channels to obtain critical surveillance information (Atkins, Williams, Salinas, Edwards, 2005). Increased surveillance activities for disaster recovery add more responsibilities to the work of public health nurses. In all types of... 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Role of the federal agencies in food safety Gateway to government food safety information Partnership for Food Safety Education/Fight BAC TM Food Safety Training and Education Alliance Foodborne Illness Information Center National Food Safety Education Month Travelers Health... 

Konsynski, B. R., McFarlan, E. W. (1990). Information partnership-Shared data, shared scale. Harvard Business Review, 68(5), 114-121. 

The SWISS-PROT database [36] release 40.44 (February, 2003) contains over 120 000 sequences of proteins with more than 44 million amino adds abstracted from about 100 000 references. Besides sequence data, bibHographical references, and taxonomy data, there are highly valuable annotations of information (e.g., protein function), a minimal level of redundancy, and a high level of integration with other databases (EMBL, PDB, PIR, etc.). The database was initiated in 1987 by a partnership between the Department of Medicinal Biochemistry of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the EMBL. Now SWISS-PROT is driven as a joint project of the EMBL and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). 

Recycling Technical Assistance Partnership National Network A national information-sharing resource designed to help businesses and manufacturers increase their use of recovered materials. 

To guarantee shipment on time, you either need to maintain an adequate inventory of finished goods for shipment on demand or utilize only predictable processes and obtain sufficient advanced order information from your customer. When you examine some of the requirements in ISO/TS 16949, you may be tempted to question how you can continually improve performance, reduce costs, and minimize space, material travel, equipment downtime, process variation, etc. and meet 100% on-time shipments. You can t, unless you have a partnership with your customer in which there is mutual assistance to meet common objectives. Without sufficient lead time on orders you will be unlikely to meet the target. However, the standard does acknowledge that you may not always be successful. There will be matters outside your control and matters over which you need complete control. It is the latter that you can do something about and take corrective action should the target not be achieved. 

Provides regulator). information for the chemical process industiy. The ChemAlliance site was made possible in large part due to funding provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. ChemAlliance is a partnership between the Chemical Industiy, EPA s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, and the ChemAlliance staff who reside at Michigan Technological University, Pacific Northwest National Laborator)>, and University of Wisconsin. 

DfE forms partnerships with industry and other interested parties to develop information on environmental and human health impacts, performance, and cost of cleaner technologies and approaches. 

A good example of the many successftil DfE Partnerships is the Furniture Flame Retard-ancy Partnerhip. Pentabromodiphenylether (PentaBDE) was the primary flame retardant used in low density, flexible polyurethane furniture foam. Due to concerns over its use and the fact that the chemical was found widespread in the environment and in human tissue and breast milk, PentaBDE was voluntarily phased out of production by US manufacturers in January 2004. The industry needed alternatives in order to meet furniture flame retardancy requirements, but did not have the human and environmental health and safety information needed in order to compare the alternatives. DfE worked with the furniture manufacturers, foam manufacturers, and flame-retardant chemical suppliers along with governmental and environmental groups to evaluate possible alternatives. 

The DfE partnership will develop information to improve the understanding of the environmental and human health impacts of new and current materials that can be used to meet the fire safety requirements for circuit boards. Project partners include electronics manufacturers, component and board manufacturers, chemical companies, trade associations, environmental groups, universities and governments. The project will consider environmental and human health impacts that can occur throughout the life cycle of a material, from development and manufacture, through product use and end of life of the material or product. Stakeholders have expressed a particular interest in understanding the combustion products that could be formed during certain end of life scenarios. The list of active partners includes ... 

Evaluating chemicals is challenging because decision makers are often faced with both a lack of information and with lack of consensus on what constitutes green . Both of these deficiencies are addressed through the US EPA DfE Partnerships and the Green Screen for Safer Chemicals. 

In order to fully exploit the information contained in the X-ray structures, interdisciplinary research is required, involving such disciplines as computational chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and molecular pharmacology in partnership with X-ray crystallography. In this context, the X-ray structures provide an excellent springboard for studying structure-activity/selectivity relationships, as well as the structure-based design of new ligands. 

Emergency Response to Terrorism Job Aid (for Fire/EMS/HazMat/Law Enforcement Personnel) A very well done, pocket-sized manual on plastic stock that actually tells first responders extensive basic information about what needs to be done at a terrorist incident. This handbook was designed, produced and distributed through a joint partnership of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Fire Administration, and the... 

As health-care professionals we need to identify and solve the problem together with the patient, and we need to do it in a rational and cost-effective way. For a practitioner this is not easy based on the rapidly expanding progress within the medical area, increasing demand from patients, and the manipulation of information from various interests in the field. First we need drugs and other treatments with documented effects (efficacy) in the elderly. Then we need to select the most appropriate drug for the individual patient. The latter is complicated and evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been suggested as the method. Finally we need to communicate with the patient and establish a partnership (concordance). 

Acknowledgements We thank the Pebble Limited Partnership for site access and background information, as well as Rich Goldfarb and Greg Lee for their helpful comments. 

The company is interested in forming partnerships with industrial companies to conduct demonstration projects (Personal communication, John P. Russell, Vice President of ARC Sonics, 1996). No information is available regarding the costs associated with this technology. 

As Atkisson, and colleagues have pointed out (1996), research subjects are best seen as active collaborators in the research process. The relationship between investigator and research participant is most respectful when it is structured as a collaborative partnership. This stance requires that participants be fully informed about the risks and benefits of the study, that they understand that the partnership is voluntary, and that they can discontinue participation at any time. 

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