However, current social perceptions and administrative classifications fail to capture this complexity: in the 2000 U.S. census only 4.2% of Puerto Ricans self-identified as "two or more races", and 95.8% self-categorized into a single "race", including "white" (80.5%), "black or African American" (8.0%), "some other race" (6.8%) and "American Indian or Alaskan Native" (0.4%) [18].
If health indicators are collected or recorded in terms of broad administrative classifications, such as 'migrant' or 'place of birth,' health risks in populations composed of internally displaced, refugees, or trafficked individuals may be obscured.
Others, though, hang their hopes on the transom between an administrative classification of "missing" and "deceased".
"Categorizing postdocs according to salary source--'employee' (paid from sponsor's grant) versus 'stipendee' (paid from an NIH fellowship/training grant or from a private foundation fellowship --is an artifellowship --isally administrative classifellowship --is Roslyn Orkin, dean of fartificialairs at Harvard Messentiallyol.
The confusion and resulting bureaucratic setback arose thanks to the UC system's recent, massive, multiyear project to bring all its postdocs, who formerly worked under a wide variety of rules, job titles, and ad hoc arrangements, into a single administrative classification--with a common benefits package--governed by Section 390 of the university system's Academic Personnel Manual (APM 390).
Chronic illness is often not recognised in health systems because it does not fit into a biomedical or administrative classification.
In all four countries, the level of urbanisation was based on the administrative classification of the respondent's address.
Findings from this evaluation suggest that the multicomponent measure performs better than the dichotomous administrative classification of urban and rural in models predicting health outcomes [ 9].
In this analysis we collected cost data from three programme-cost levels: central, provincial and district levels, but the data can be easily adapted to the relevant administrative classification in different settings.
Clearly, researchers with access to the database of a hospital's EHR can perform retrospective research to determine risks associated with clinical and physiological variables, stratified by age, gender, race or any administrative classification.
These visits were distinguished by an administrative classification, because the registers do not included the reasons for visits Data on the numbers of women invited and participating in organised cancer screening in 1998 were obtained from the files of the Mass Screening Registry at the Finnish Cancer Registry [ 9, 10].
