The study used overall broad measures of drug prescribing and further research is required to understand the specific influence of multidrug dose and duration on longer term outcomes.
Using a broad measure of economic and personal well-being, only 7% of British Muslims called themselves "thriving" compared with 56% of the British public.
Using a broad measure of poverty that includes the value of tax credits and non-cash assistance, the Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington think-tank, calculates that the average amount by which poor families fell below the poverty line was $245 higher in 1998 than in 1995.
It should also be noted that most risk factors were classified using broad categories and/or measuring only one aspect of the risk factor.
A significant finding of this paper is that peer effects stand out more clearly when we use narrow, rather than broad measures of peer groups.
Key points We applied measures of DA rather than only measures of association to revisit the value of using broad native and migrant categories for predicting SRH.
This supports again the main findings: that broad measures of healthcare should be used as input-output variables, rather than more specific measures.
Using a broader measure of constraints on the executive — an index that includes several of the institutional checks and balances noted above — they find that after four years of populist rule, these checks on the executive are 17percentt lower than under a regular democracy, while the rule of law is 22 lower.
Using the broadest measure of unemployment, which includes part-time workers who want to work full time as well as individuals who are not looking for jobs but indicate they want to work, the unemployment rate fell to 14.7percentt from 15percentt.
Using a broader measure of poverty, the decline in poverty has been comparable to the big gains of the 1960s and was more than twice as great as during the 1980s.Yet the fact remains: poor parents have seen less improvement in incomes than in their chance of a job.
