These findings highlight a need to facilitate educational opportunities for midwives to instil professional confidence, knowledge and skills in engaging with pregnant women on these issues.
Many felt that rather than lacking capacity for participation, problems arose as a result of lack of skill in engaging in the policy process.
The focus on raising levels of literacy and numeracy is, of course, to be welcomed and teachers' skills in engaging learners will be tested if the new programmes of study are little altered after the coming consultation.
Their ability to expand the type of care provided and their unique skills in engaging with community members were viewed as a critical adjunct to conventional medical services.
In particular, IKT is challenged by the time and resources required for interaction; differential timelines between researchers and decision-makers; few professional and academic incentives tied to performance; and lack of interest, knowledge and skill to engage in IKT [ 4, 6, 12, 13].
Specifically, it is essential to understand the degree to which patients have the knowledge and skills to engage in their care and use that knowledge to perform health-promoting behaviors.
By this means, farmers can bring the gained knowledge, experiences and skills to engage in their farming occupation to the extent that they can be self-reliant and can increase production efficiency at community level.
However, for the region to take advantage of its youthful population and reap the demographic dividend stemming from a large working age population, African governments must ensure that youth have adequate opportunities and skills to engage meaningfully in the social and economic sectors, and adopt healthy behaviors [ 3].
Makers represent a growing community of builders and creators — engineers, scientists, artists, and hobbyists of all ages, interests, and skill levels who engage in experimentation, collaboration, and innovation based on open-source principles.
Virginians will need deeper and broader knowledge and skills to be engaged, productive participants in our evolving commonwealth and its economy".
Jones and her team have developed a set of "brain games" that help students develop executive function and self-regulation skills in fun, engaging, and ongoing ways.
