So last year, together with Ambassador Pamela Hamamoto, United States Representative to the UN in Geneva, and with the support of Women@TheTable, we launched the International Geneva Gender Champions initiative through which Champions commit to practical, impactful and measurable ways of operationalizing gender measures in their workplaces.
The SCAN Foundation recently commissioned several national experts on how to use the most appropriate qualitative techniques to lay out some of the principles and concepts that underlie developing, testing, and operationalizing quality measures.
This case reveals that, despite its association with objectivity and transparency, commensuration encompasses more than identifying, operationalizing, and measuring an entity; it demands the negotiation of extra-scientific, non-empirical concerns that get written into medical metrics themselves.
As the most widely used set of quality measures in the U.S. managed healthcare industry, the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set HEDISS) operationalizes quality measures across many domains of treatment [ 1], including two quality measures related to addiction treatment - Initiation and Engagement.
Women's empowerment has been mostly operationalized and measured using proxy measures: women's participation in household decision-making; access to, or control over household resources (e.g., income); perceptions of gender norms regarding the relationship between couples; and perceived equity in their power and resources [ 10, 12].
Analogous to measuring β-blocker use after myocardial infarction, we could operationalize simple measures to reflect the consistency and quality of our organ support and sepsis management.
ICC is defined as the ability to develop meaningful intercultural relations with host and other nationals, and is operationalized in measures derived from the social network of a multicultural community with 280 members.
Specifically, we describe how the German VET system currently operationalizes and measures competences in the economic domain.
