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Economic studies should consider the costs of all the resources and services used in the process of care. In addition, the outcomes that are a consequence of the health or social care interventions evaluated need to be included. For dementia, these include the costs of hospital inpatient and out-patient care, primary and community-based health-care services, social welfare services, and care provided by voluntary agencies or by femily and friends. Ideally, a broad perspective reflecting the costs and outcomes to society should be adopted. As a minimum, the perspective of the analysis should include the costs and outcomes to key health and social care providers or funders and to patients and their families. 

Nutrition Educators Government Agencies Educational Institutions Professional Organizations Voluntary Agencies Food Industries Nutrition Education Channels Nutrition Education Sources Summary... 

Street, A., et al. (2009) Review of the Engagement of NGOs with the Humanitarian Reform Process Synthesis Report. NGOs and Humanitarian Reform Project/Intemational Council of Voluntary Agencies, October. 

Agency. A second example of an external method of quality assessment is the voluntary participation of the laboratory in a collaborative test (Chapter 14) sponsored by a professional organization such as the Association of Official Analytical Chemists. Finally, individuals contracting with a laboratory can perform their own external quality assessment by submitting blind duplicate samples and blind standard samples to the laboratory for analysis. If the results for the quality assessment samples are unacceptable, then there is good reason to consider the results suspect for other samples provided by the laboratory. 

The law aims at creating a more cooperative relationsliip between tlie environmental agencies and industry. Strict enforcement provisions witli penalties for incomplete compliance could do tlie opposite and actually create a disincentive to critical self-auditing, self-policing and voluntary disclosure. 

For details of other voluntary and statutory agencies in your area that may be able to offer help, advice or information, look in your local telephone directory under Help and advice . 

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National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) A voluntary membership agency to promote fire safety and allied considerations. NFPA publishes standards of interest to hazardous materials responders such as, NFPA-471 Recommended Practice for Responding to Hazardous Materials Incidents, NFPA-472 Standard for Professional Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials Incidents, and NFPA-473, Competencies for EMS Personnel Responding to Hazardous Materials Incidents. 

The chemical industry also encourages EPA to reexamine and rescind its premanufacture Testing Policy. While ostensibly voluntary, this policy embodies the Agency s position that all, or nearly all, new chemicals should undergo a minimum "base set" of tests or, in OECD terms, a "Minimum Premarketing Set of Data" (MPD), which could greatly increase the costs of... 

None of the research and development work is funded by FAO and all of the participation by co-operating institutes and their staff is entirely voluntary. It therefore requires a certain amount of adjustment by participants to link up their research and development work funded by international and national agencies with the co-operative programme. 

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