Adapting guidelines to local settings

Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Innovations to Developing Settings

Surveillance, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), “is the cornerstone of public health security” [1]. In many developing countries, human, laboratory, and infrastructure limitations impede effective surveillance [2–5]. Such countries likely do not meet core surveillance and response capacities under the new International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) [6], which require detection o...

Adapting clinical practice guidelines to local context and assessing barriers to their use.

Adapting Public Sector Services to Local Delivery

This article describes the local government system established in the 2001 Devolution Plan and its evolution over the period 2002-07, with a focus on two essential public services, education and health. We believe that the devolution of service delivery functions, delegation of financial powers, decentralization of authority, and deconcentration of executive powers, can, together, lead to bette...

Adapting Operator Settings in Genetic Algorithms

In the majority of genetic algorithm implementations, the operator settings are fixed throughout a given run. However, it has been argued that these settings should vary over the course of a genetic algorithm run--so as to account for changes in the ability of the operators to produce children of increased fitness. This paper describes an investigation into this question. The effect upon geneti...

Guidelines for adapting cognitive stimulation therapy to other cultures

Cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) has been shown to be an useful and cost effective intervention that increases cognition and quality of life of people with mild to moderate dementia. It is increasing in popularity in the UK and worldwide, and a number of research teams have examined its effectiveness in other contexts and cultures. However, it is necessary to develop clear evidence-based gui...