"substantive area" is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to refer to an area or topic which is significant and substantial, a field of study or activity of importance. For example, "This substantive area has been the focus of considerable research in recent years."
Fundamentally a point of view or a method of attack, it should not be identified with any particular substantive area.
This unusual arrangement - where a statute regulating one substantive area incorporates documents promulgated by an unrelated administrative agency for use in a different substantive area - presents bankruptcy judges with a set of unfamiliar and difficult administrative law questions.
Some students may be interested in the theory of statistics and/or probability, whereas other students may wish to apply statistical and probabilistic methods to a substantive area.
As such an evolution proceeds, there may be an increasing tendency for individual systems analysts to become identified with the substantive area in which they work and to lose their special relations to systems analysis as a distinctive field.
Doctoral students are required to demonstrate research preparedness in a substantive area by passing the research paper at the 5500 level, the certification exam and certification at the 6500 level, and the dissertation proposal at the 7500 level.
Despite the relevance of suicide to psychiatric/mental health (P/MH) nurses, there is a documented paucity of research in this substantive area undertaken by or referring specifically to P/MH nurses; there is currently no extant theory to guide P/MH nursing care of the suicidal person.
The Fellowship is not restricted to particular substantive areas.
Concepts such as density, homogeneity, and centrality; applications to substantive areas.
We learned about teaching and became competent in a wide range of substantive areas.
Substantive areas will include health economics, taxation, social security, and non-health components of government spending.
He says: "Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy.
