Housing leaders need to think of ways to offer alternative and better housing options to older people – even before they need care and support – encouraging them to plan ahead for later life while freeing up a rich source of under-occupied family properties.
It was not known how many family cancers had been missed by not being reported by relatives, and this could be a potential source of under-ascertainment.
There is a need to consider, among other parameters that would inform the level of priority allocated to a given disease, its prevalence and, ideally, that adjusted for any source of under-ascertainment.
Another source of under-ascertainment could result from a situation where a family could not be contacted because one or both of the parents had died from cancer, resulting in a family with a potentially higher cancer incidence not being included in the study.
It is noteworthy that the nature of the information given to patients depends on the clinician's evaluation of the prognosis: in the field of COPD, there is evidence that an unwarranted prognostic pessimism can be a source of under-treatment [ 41].
In part, it was luck; Christopher Potter, an editor with the fledgling publishing house Fourth Estate, was scouring small Canadian and north American presses, convinced that they were sources of under-appreciated literary greatness.
To better estimate the prevalence of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 during April July 2009 in the United States, we created a simple multiplier model that adjusts for these sources of under-ascertainment.
Although quantifying the scale of, and trends in, sources of under- and overestimation is challenging, it is essential that data collection systems are in place to provide best estimates.
Although each data source may be liable to the same biases and other sources of under- and overestimation, similar population levels and trends derived from different sources provide some reassurance that the data are representative and measure what they purport to measure.
This issue is also of great practical importance for crop improvement because wild germplasm represents a rich potential source of useful under-exploited alleles or allele combinations.
IF SEX was the richest source of scandal under the last Conservative government, money has taken its place under Labour.
