Handling limited resources Sample Clauses

Handling limited resources. Preconditions for effective PHR activities are adequate resources (financial, personnel, informational). Those being active in PHR have to be qualified in health statistics and the utilisation of the informational infrastructure. It might be a problem to convince potential commissioners or investors in PHR activities to provide enough resources in the starting phase, because a lack of resources makes it difficult to prove the opportunities of PHR activities. But it is decisive to convince them that investments are satisfied. People being active in PHR can be supported by the delivery of “models of good practise” (process, design of products, concepts, methods, utilization of new technologies) and activities to support the development of good practise, e.g. by horizontal (between activities at the same level) and vertical (between activities at different levels) cooperation or integration. Cooperation between institutions at the same (e.g. local) level is helpful. It is possible to xxxxxx a process of specialisation and division of labour: The development of conceptual approaches, “example reports” and more ambitious statistical methods could be delegated to certain specialised institutions at the same level of PHR activities. “Higher” levels of PHR activities (regional, national, European) could also take care about the conceptual work and further about the availability and comparability of data to support comparative approaches. Flexibility and pluralism of PHR activities should be combined with coordination and cooperation to handle limited resources effectively, to facilitate comparative approaches and to support mutual learning. All in all, it is recommended that higher levels of PHR activities should conduct PHR activities for their own policy making, but also support conceptual developments, comparative approaches and the development of supportive tools for PHR activities on lower levels, while PHR activities at lower levels could reproduce well known epidemiological knowledge to attract interest at the local level but should especially focus on bridging the gap between scientific knowledge and local action, taking local circumstances concerning health and other relevant services and actor constellations into account (s. Figure 7). Agenda setting by PHR Supporting PHR activities Comparative Approach PHR for information Europ. level PHR involved in action national level regional level local level Figure 7: Vertical cooperation To compare points in tim...