However, we believe that the outcomes of interest noted above will provide adequate proxies to practice, in that they have been linked to practice or are precursors to the improvement of practice.
11 We used the Scottish surveys because they can be linked to practice of registration and the British survey for the remaining analyses because it is longitudinal and allows us to observe individuals' histories of caseness and visits to a general practitioner before their claim for incapacity benefit.
Archaeologists once thought mound building was linked to practices such as agriculture, which created food surpluses and tended to lead to more permanent settlements and more complex societies, or to extensive trade, which could also foster more prosperous societies.
Census (2001) data from the Office for National Statistics, measured at small-area level (ie, Lower Super Output Areas), were linked to practices on the basis of their practice population distribution as reported annually in ADS.
It is probable that minor dental problems, which rarely require hospitalisation, are linked to admission practices rather than the efficiency of primary care.
Some infectious diseases are linked to cultural practices of the indigenous population, such as botulism from ingesting improperly prepared traditionally fermented foods (7 ) and trichinosis from consuming meats from land and marine mammals (L.N. Moller, unpub. data).
Yet many problems resist solution because the offending (unsustainable) practices are linked to deeply entrenched practices and constraints and supported by established definitions of values and interests.
IPM strategies for other pests are more likely to win acceptance from farmers when they are linked to varieties or management practices that raise cash income.
Various factors contributing towards it deficiency are linked to their housing designs, religious practices, lifestyle choices and dark skin color.
Instead, "humanitarian uses of new technology can add to (rather than reduce) the ways in which humanitarian practices are linked to contextual political dynamics" (Jacobsen 2015 2).
Such practices are linked to ancient traditions of the Tai Dam community which are concerned with the thoughtful management of land and water.
