It's that it hampers the effectiveness of efforts against poverty.
Some experts say these new findings raise questions about the effectiveness of efforts to combat the obesity epidemic simply by improving access to healthy foods.
We are currently looking at ways, through the UK's Department for International Development What Works programme, to generate new data on the scale of the cost of VAW and provide basic benchmark data to monitor effectiveness of efforts to address violence.
Whereas lawyers, criminal justice officials, counselors, therapists, and medical professionals provide the actual services, victimologists study the kinds of help injured parties need and the effectiveness of efforts intended to make them "whole again," both financially and emotionally.
Impacts of deprivation are particularly important in policy terms as indicating effectiveness of efforts to reduce inequalities in care sensitive admissions.
Two economists, Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell, have been studying financial literacy and the effectiveness of efforts to promote it for many years.
Our results demonstrate that the spatial design of the factory significantly influences airflow and therefore the effectiveness of efforts to eliminate particulate matter.
"If an emotional change in one person spreads and causes a change in many, then we may be dramatically underestimating the effectiveness of efforts to improve mental and physical health," said James Fowler, professor of medical genetics and political science in the School of Medicine at UC San Diego and lead author.
French policymakers could use analyses of geographic variation in service utilization to inform policy, to identify areas for intervention, or to measure the effectiveness of efforts designed to reduce variation in care.
Monitoring changes in the nutritional content of food/beverage products and shifts in consumer purchasing behaviors is needed to measure the effectiveness of efforts by both food manufacturers and policy makers to improve dietary quality in the United States.
But the fall of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar, Iraq's largest province, has called into question the overall effectiveness of efforts to defeat the militants, and experts say it could cement Washington and Baghdad's reliance on Shia militias and their Iranian backers as the conflict continues.
