Future research should focus on outcome measure development, developing economic evaluation tools and incorporating these into high quality studies to address known research gaps.
On some indices, children appear to have adult-like competence by school age, whereas for other measures development follows a protracted course.
The HDI measures development by combining indicators of life expectancy, educational attainment, and income into a composite HDI.
Details of the measures, development, validation, and previous applications of the instrument have been published previously [ 17, 32].
All authors contributed to the study design, grant preparation, questionnaire and measures development and contributed to the drafting and editing of the manuscript.
This measures development by combining indicators of life expectancy, education, and income into a composite index [ 19] and shows a strong inverse relationship with the mortality ratio [ 20].
It became, for many Israelis, the yardstick by which they measured developments in the peace process.
In describing existing measures with respect to these characteristics, we aimed to highlight areas of greater and lesser measurement density to help guide further measure development work.
Standard procedures in measure development and validation improved the properties of measurement for this study.
Main outcome measure Development of diabetes, stratified by the risk of developing diabetes according to a diabetes risk prediction model.
