The word follow-up It is widely used in our language and fundamentally in two senses, on the one hand, to indicate the action of following something or someonebeing this sense a synonym of popular use of the concept of persecution.
Following someone or something or exhaustive surveillance of a process
And this same word is also used to indicate the detailed and in-depth observation and surveillance carried out on a subject or on a person.
Monitoring is a resource that allows for acute contemplation on various activities, in order to make the right decisions later.
Generally, this use of the term appears much at the behest of contexts of police, judicial, detective investigation (a private investigator is hired to investigate and follow a person with the mission of discovering what he is up to), medical, scientific, statistical, among others, with the mission of observing and analyzing how a case evolves.
In any case, the concept can be applied to any type of research, project or process that requires constant observation.
Discovering a crime red-handed
In the specific case of the police, this body dedicates much of its time and effort to monitoring individuals who are presumed to be linked to a criminal act or to a criminal organization.
In the meantime, from this follow-up, which of course must be done with great care to avoid being discovered, it will be possible to obtain a fundamental clue to solve a case, or to catch someone red-handed, that is, committing an illegal act.
Many security forces, in order to catch and disrupt criminal gangs, often infiltrate them with false identities, thus being able to follow their every move and prepare the best moment to hit them.
Medicine: follow the evolution of a patient
On the other hand, at the behest of medicine, it is common for medical professionals to monitor their patients after diagnosing a particular condition.
This follow-up is fundamental because it allows to appreciate first-hand the evolution or not that the patient is presenting before the prescribed medication or the practices tending to treat his disease.
This follow-up, especially when dealing with a serious illness, is constant and should not stop until the doctor notes that the patient has responded satisfactorily to treatment and the initial serious symptoms have disappeared.
On the other hand, follow-up allows the doctor to change the treatment if a positive evolution of the patient to the stimuli is not observed.
In the commercial field, monitoring is also common to find out the performance of a new product or service, that is, the impact it had on the public, how sales are evolving, among other factors.
When in the follow-up it is noticed that the results are not those expected or projected, changes can be introduced aimed at favoring the acceptance of the product in question.
Accompany or chase someone
It should be noted that the follow-up can have a positive purpose to call it in some way, for example, having the mission of accompanying a person in some activity that they do so that they carry it out satisfactorily; A father who periodically monitors his son’s studies does so with the clear objective that he can progress without complications in them and if any inconvenience is evident, the follow-up will allow the father to take the necessary measures so that his daughter can overcome the problem. , such as sending your child to a private teacher to improve in the subject that is weakest.
Or, failing that, it may present a negative purpose, such as those cases in which a person follows another incessantly and with obsessive overtones.
There are sentimental relationships in which one of the two parties can fall into an obsessive situation that triggers the need to know all the time what the other is doing, while, for this, they often implement monitoring per se or by someone else.
Now, nothing good can be expected from a relationship that turns in this direction.
The obsession in any plane in which it occurs is negative, full of distrust and darkness to the person who suffers from it.
As we have already indicated lines above, persecution is the most used synonym for this term.
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