Gaps between Policy and Implementation

Sexual violence in India: addressing gaps between policy and implementation.

The savage Delhi rape of 16 December 2012 was instrumental in generating the Verma Report that framed policies for amending the Criminal Laws related to sexual violence, professionalizing forensic/medical examination of victims, and sensitizing the police, electorate and the educational sectors. Unfortunately, even after a year, the Indian Home Ministry has abysmally failed to implement most re...

[Bridging gaps between research and policy].

Researching income and income distribution as determinants of health in Canada: gaps between theoretical knowledge, research practice, and policy implementation.

The research identified gaps in Canadian knowledge and research activity concerning the roles that income and its distribution play in Canadians' population health. 241 Canadian research studies on income and health were considered along eight taxonomies: conceptualization of income or its proxies; theoretical underpinnings; income distribution measures; health measures; who/what was studied, p...

Reducing Database Security Implementation Gaps

The proposed strategy borrows from risk analysis methods and consists of nine elements. The first step is system characterization. This should be followed by identification of threats, gap identification, control analysis, determination of the likelihood of occurrence, an impact analysis, risk determination, recommendations for control and finally documentation of results. System characterizati...

Implementation and aspiration gaps: whose view counts?

2068 www.thelancet.com Vol 388 October 29, 2016 The Lancet’s Maternal Health Series paints a sobering picture of the state of maternal health today. The Series focuses on the “mismatch between burden and coverage”, which “exposes a crucial gap in quality of care” and spotlights the millions of pregnant women and adolescents who never get access to services at all. But 30 years after the start o...