FAS II is a composite score consisting of four items on material assets: Does your family own a car, van or truck?
The central tenet of a systems approach is that complex behaviours of organic and social systems are the result of ongoing accumulations of people, material assets, biological or psychological states with feedback mechanisms 64.
This method creates an asset index by ranking households, usually within a nationally representative sample, via a list of household material assets.
We cannot, he said, "mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage".
We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.
To bring things back to the board room: sensitivity to local and global issues, internal and external matters, and understanding the human and material assets of the organization and how new ideas can be introduced and integrated into the organization are core components of the proactive approach.
More recent studies have found that household income largely explained gender inequalities in physical and mental health in the United States (16), that adjustment by income and income source halved the excess risk of poor SRH of US women (17), and that material assets and economic independence entirely explained gender inequalities in SRH in an Indian study (18).
They block our experience of wealth, no matter our material assets.
Financial difficulties, material assets, neighbourhood quality of life and a very high rating of safety problems were consistently associated with SRH in all subgroups (not significantly in non-manual men).
This task presents a complex mix of logistic, medical, and communication challenges, exactly the kind of effort that could benefit from the combination of government and business human and material assets.
