Several Latin American countries are devising or have already adopted such "multi-dimensional" measures of poverty.Income can be a misleading measure of need because poor people end up living in different degrees of hardship depending on their intangible resources.
We first entered items from widely used multi-dimensional measures.
A recent review of multi-dimensional measures of psychosocial health for AYA cancer survivors found two critical limitations.
Multi-dimensional measures of health assess elements of physical, psychological, social, and often spiritual well-being [ 29].
We expect that our high throughput, multi-dimensional measures will provide a solid foundation for developing mechanical models of the nucleus.
A previous qualitative study in Singapore demonstrated the relevance of spiritual and religious practices to mental health, a dimension currently not included in exiting multi-dimensional measures.
The structure of multi-dimensional measures (and hence their unidimensionality) is best tested in the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) framework [ 31– 31].
The BPI is recommended as a research pain measurement tool by the Expert Working Group of the European Association of Palliative Care [ 1], and it is one of the most widely used multi-dimensional measures for cancer pain.
In addition, our one-dimensional epidemiological measures, taken from items designed for other purposes or from available stocks of post hoc measures, are therefore not exhaustive, and recent researchers have applied multi-dimensional measures of social networks among the elderly [ 47].
Finally, in a preceding qualitative study conducted among adult participants belonging to the three major ethnic groups in Singapore, we identified the relevance of spiritual and religious practices to mental health in this population, a dimension which is largely neglected in the available multi-dimensional measures.
The government's consultation on a new "multi-dimensional measure of poverty" ends on Friday.
