This may come from a lack of nationally recognised guidelines for weighing and GWG, limited health professional education and changes in practice resulting in non-evidence based approaches to care and advice.
Although there have been attempts to define allied health [ 7, 8], there remains a lack of an internationally recognised definition because of the range and complexity of services delivered by the disciplines listed under the allied health umbrella.
35 In addition to low screening rates, barriers to detection include clinicians' limited encounters with the abused patients, a clinical focus on acute conditions rather than on long term issues, a lack of special training in recognising abuse, a fear of offending the patient, and a lack of resources, staff, and procedures necessary for handling abuse cases.
We recognised a lack of publicly available data about public education was causing an imbalance between the education system and its usersand within the system itself, so we set up the Karnataka Learning Partnership.
(Mother 2, Chinese group) Moreover, parents recognised a lack of motivation, often associated to preferences for sedentary behaviours, to have a negative impact on children's activity levels.
A lack of non-technical skills is increasingly recognised as an important underlying cause of adverse events in healthcare.
Infant overweight and obesity were not consistently recognised and a lack of common terminology combined with a dearth of training and guidance seemed to make identification and intervention difficult.
A lack of non-technical skills is increasingly recognised as an important underlying cause of adverse events in healthcare. 1 2 Non-technical skills are 'the cognitive, social and personal resource skills that complement technical skills and contribute to safe and efficient task performance'.
Some of these traits – like a lack of self-control – we would probably recognise as dangerous.
