Sentence examples for predisposing characteristics from inspiring English sources

The purpose of this study is to apply Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Service Use to men's prisons to assess the direct and indirect effects of inmate predisposing characteristics through multiple types of need.

Block 1 – adjusted for predisposing characteristics; Block 2 – adjusted for predisposing characteristics and enabling resources; Block 3 – adjusted for all variables – predisposing characteristics, enabling resources and need.

Perhaps predisposing characteristics are more important as clients approach death.

Marital status, age, sex and time since immigration represent predisposing characteristics.

The effects of predisposing characteristics and need factors are consistent with previous studies.

First, a baseline model was estimated, introducing only predisposing characteristics (Model 0).

Only one of these studies addressed the predisposing characteristics associated with being hospitalised.

These predictors were identified as components of: need, predisposing characteristics, and enabling factors.

We find that enabling resources, not predisposing characteristics, are the main barriers to utilizing specialty care.

The first set of these explanatory variables measures the predisposing characteristics of gender, age, race/ethnicity, and education.

These factors are generally more mutable than predisposing characteristics, as they include such things as insurance and availability of physicians.