Because of its physical and physiological characteristics, the horse has a natural predisposition for use in sport.
The video recordings indicated a predisposition for use of the right front flipper during feeding.
These data, especially the sibling study of Ersche et al. (2012a, b), indicate that greater dorsal striatal (caudate or putamen) volume is associated with a predisposition for drug use and part of an endophenotype that may predict a greater propensity to acquire drug seeking habits.
We have investigated the genetic predisposition to GERD using three different patient cohorts.
The Impact of Event Scale (IES) measures cancer specific distress [ 52, 53] and is included in baseline once using genetic predisposition for cancer as the distressing event, once using breast cancer.
According to the model a person's utilization of health services is a function of his/her need for such services, a predisposition to use them and factors that enable them to be used.
The main premise of the model is that healthcare use is determined by people's predisposition to use services, their need for healthcare and the enabling and disabling factors that influence their access to care.
The theory underpinning this study was Andersen's model of healthcare use [ 29], which presents healthcare use as determined by people's predisposition to use services, their need for healthcare and the enabling and disabling factors that influence their access to care [ 30].
This model suggests that people's use of health services, or NHA, is a function of their predisposition to use services, factors which enable or impede use, and their need for care.
Specifically, Andersen's model assumes that individuals' use of services is a function of their predisposition to use services (predisposing factors), factors that support or impede use (enabling factors), as well as their need for health care (illness level).
