The phrase "an increasing acknowledgement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a growing recognition or acceptance of something over time.
Example: "There has been an increasing acknowledgement of the importance of mental health in our society."
Alternatives: "a growing recognition" or "a rising acceptance".
There is an increasing acknowledgement of the limitations of cost benefit analysis approaches as a measure of the (un)sustainability of organizational activities.
"There's an increasing acknowledgement among designers that climate change is happening, that we've reached a tipping point," Kelly Johnson told me.
Despite an increasing acknowledgement of the importance of health workforce retention, there is still a considerable lack of knowledge and evidence on the costs of policies intended to achieve an equitable distribution of health workers in underserved areas.
It was not until the mid-1990s that leading medical publications such as the British Medical Journal began including qualitative studies [ 11, 12], reflecting an increasing acknowledgement of the value of qualitative research within the predominant evidence-based medicine model [ 13, 14].
There is an increasing acknowledgement of the complexities of the process of bringing new technology into routine use: what is implemented is a package of behaviour change, not just a piece of equipment or protocol [ 16]; it is a process over time [ 16, 17] and it involves a complex social system, in which multiple parties are involved [ 17– 19], some of which may be resistant [ 20].
Firstly, there has been an increased acknowledgement that some issues – climate change, economic meltdown, chronic diseases – are truly global, and need international collaboration to be properly addressed.
This recent change in legislation, along with an increased acknowledgement of the role of stigma as a barrier to work for individuals with a mental health problem, highlight the timeliness of this review.
It appears that our participants report an increased acknowledgement of the value of the theory and clinical learning from their earlier years of study when they reach the latter parts of the degree.
From the late 1990s onwards there has also been a gradual move away from a focus on the rather paternalistic question about whether the person with dementia should be told 'the truth' (e.g., Fearnley, McLennan, & Weaks, 1997) or not, as well as an increased acknowledgement that diagnosis is a process rather than a one-off event (e.g., Hellström & Torres, 2013).
18 The prevalence of HF with normal ejection fraction increased over the last years, 19 in part as a consequence of increasing acknowledgement of its importance and of improvements in the ability to recognise it.
Nowadays, the potential roles of community health workers within primary health care have received renewed attention as a result of the HIV pandemic and due to the increasing acknowledgement of the critical shortage of human resources within health services [ 9- 11].
