The CCM offers a solution that shifts the paradigm from the acute care model to a comprehensive, patient-centred model of care, which integrates multifaceted elements to improve the quality of chronic disease outcomes [ 21– 23].
Some researchers have even attempted to identify which of the individual CCM elements were the most effective, despite the difficulty of disentangling the multifaceted elements.
Zinc, as a multifaceted element, suggests that the effects of zinc supplementation on other aspects of health such as bone development, infections and obesity may need to be studied in adolescents.
This multifaceted process includes elements of both prevention and treatment.
This contrasts to the tools that are available for determining the risk of cardiovascular disease, where multifaceted profiles including elements of personal and family history, social habits, body measurements and lab tests can generate a reasonable and very personalized risk prediction for an individual patient [ 14].
This is a multifaceted, complex question, combining elements of social structure, tax and immigration laws, and culture -- all things that it would be difficult for an Ambassador to impact, assuming that it were appropriate for her to try to do so.
Elements of the multifaceted emotional construct of anger, such as hostility, have been shown to be associated with increased risk of negative health outcomes such as cardiovascular disease [1, 2, 3], cerebrovascular accident [4], and the metabolic syndrome [5, 6].
Finally, it is difficult to assess separately the effects of the different elements of the multifaceted empowerment strategy.
There is little sign that America's key allies in this fight are paying attention to all of the elements of President Obama's multifaceted approach to countering violent extremism.
Given the nature of this multifaceted, complex intervention, we are unable to determine which elements of the intervention were effective or which were ineffective; further, we are unable to quantify the dose of each strategy that individual staff members received.
