During our 4-years office term, collaboration had been our recurring theme, and can be found in various degree of implementation.
Finally, a problem may be rooted in the degree of implementation of an agreed course of action about a programme, service or drug, or else an agreed course of action about the health system arrangements within which these are provided.
In fact, no significant differences were found in response rate, degree of implementation, and coverage for behavioral therapy and tobacco dependence treatment medication, as tested by χ2 test for proportions.
STI trends were less consistent than HIV trends potentially reflecting variation in programme effectiveness, degree of implementation (e.g. syphilis screening took off in 2008, except for Mysore where it started earlier), and different and faster transmission dynamics or a lack of statistical power.
In the rest of the periods, consistent with the fact that there were greater differences in terms of degree of implementation of the EFQM model between these groups, the pattern was much more clear for the four dimensions identified in the first analysis, namely those related to Training and professional development, Internal communication, Leadership style and Policy and strategy.
Differences in the timing and degree of implementation provide a source of identification for unraveling the causal effect of education on teenage fertility using an Instrumental Variables approach.
A mathematical model is proposed to incorporate these elements taking into account their contribution weights as well as measuring their degree of implementation in the plant.
In order to assess the degree of implementation of the recommendations, an overall descriptive analysis was conducted among the first eight countries where PAHO and partners undertook this type of review mission: Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Argentina, and Guatemala.
