The third section, in which our findings are presented, begins by defining a criterion for identifying intensive travellers and goes on to identify and measure the determinants of travel time and finally reports on interviews with intensive travellers about their experience of travel time.
This methodology has provided tools and processes to facilitate the understanding and to measure the determinants of risks to environmental health, to help decision makers control those risks.
Second, it is more than just a theoretical aid to help us conceptualize reality in our minds: Its operationalization, both quantitative and qualitative, allows us to measure the determinants and to test the model as a whole.
Health surveillance systems report on health indicators, defined as statistics or parameters that provide, over time, information on trends and changes in the condition and status of health.[ 19] Health indicators are important tools that help describe and measure the determinants of health, including health services, as well as health status and health outcomes.
After collation of routine data on first attendances and maternal mortality from every facility in the two states involved in the work, a sentinel process measuring the upstream determinants of maternal mortality reached out to a sample of some 15,000 women in 180 sentinel sites who had been pregnant in the last three years.
For injury prevention interventions to have the best chance of working, practice-based research that aims to measure the contextual determinants of program effectiveness is required to translate efficacy into effectiveness; but alone, this is not enough.
Further research is needed to identify and measure the other determinants of behaviour according to Triandis model, namely habit, motivation and facilitating conditions.
Furthermore, our study validates the Spanish version of the instrument that we have developed to measure the psychosocial determinants of telemonitoring acceptance by healthcare providers and confirms that it could be applied in both hospital and primary care settings.
Qualitative and quantitative studies can be used in measuring the burden and understanding the determinants of disease.
