Time loss is also easily operationalized, and when combined with wage information, can help estimate the economic impacts that oral diseases have on society.
In Burkina Faso, where the Bamako Initiative is at the heart of the health system, integration of the recent policy of subsidizing 80% of the cost of deliveries and caesareans within the cost recovery system was also well operationalized, even though the impacts on utilization are heterogeneous [ 52].
The measure of behavior is self reported and probably not very explicitly operationalized, this is also a possible limitation.
Latter is also a frequently used measure to operationalize the overall care experiences of patients in a certain health care setting [ 25].
As my own vipassana teacher, Gordon Peerman, an Episcopal priest who is also an advanced Buddhist practitioner, loves to say, "Buddhist practice enables me to operationalize the Christian calling to love my neighbor".
However, this instrument is also unlikely to provide adequate data on the full extent to which policies have been operationalized, including through legislation and regulation.
Accountability is also critical, and the administration should press Congo to arrest Gen. Bosco Ntaganda and operationalize the Special Mixed Court for war criminals, which has strong local and international buy-in.
The exercise referral model is also being established in primary care practice in other parts of Europe [ 19, 20] and is operationalized differently internationally.
These contacts are also used to operationalize and interpret results from general surveys such as CSI and image measurements.
"It's a different talent pool of folks who love to do this sort of thing, that's how we're able to find great people, and we're also good at operationalizing the process.
