As pragmatic trials, on the other hand, measure the effectiveness of intervention under routine conditions [ 4, 25, 26, 38, 39], they allow for the incorporation of variations among sites, professional and patient heterogeneity, and less standardised treatments to correspond with daily clinical decision-making.
However, usage patterns by different professionals show significant heterogeneity.
These results are interesting because one experiment was done in a hospital-based cohort which clinical data is obtained from different professionals and greater heterogeneity, and the following experiments were done in population-based cohorts and data were collected with experimental rigor to increase homogeneity.
After having looked at the public sector as a whole, in this section, we conduct some subsample analysis, disaggregating the public sector into its main industries, looking separately at the most important professional groups, and exploring heterogeneity along the tenure, age, and country dimensions.
There was clearly more heterogeneity for professional profile and mixed profile (Figure 2).
Given the great variety of public health and health promotion practice settings, the heterogeneity of professional backgrounds, and the complexity of determinants that need to be addressed to promote the health of populations, program adaptability is a prerequisite for health promotion professional development.
The study provides new insights for analysing professional labour markets, in which heterogeneity in career interests is acknowledged.
Participants were divided into the smaller groups according to their professional backgrounds, to maximize group heterogeneity and exposure to professional diversity.
We argue that an important factor to be put into perspective regarding this issue is the heterogeneity of the professional class, especially of psychiatrists [ 31].
