This shortage in absolute numbers is further compounded by the unequal distribution of workers across countries and regions, skill-mix imbalance, and weak knowledge base [ 4, 6, 7].
This shortage was in part the result of the limited number of medical schools and of students enrolled and graduating from local medical programmes, along with a weak knowledge of medical schools' capacities, strengths and weaknesses [ 1, 2, 4, 7].
The first was that weaker knowledge of Dutch vocabulary and consequently less familiarity with Dutch bigram regularities may influence perception speed, even when pseudowords were involved.
The patients with OCD demonstrated weaker knowledge of the causal relationship between actions and their respective outcomes, suggesting a disturbance in goal-directed action control.
It finds that the coexistence of cohesion effects (reciprocity and transitivity) with the weak knowledge bases of some firms in the cluster contribute to a stable informal hierarchical network structure over time.
Poor access to and quality of antenatal care services, weak knowledge and skills of health workers on neonatal care and resuscitation, poor infrastructure of health institutions and inadequate implementation of national protocols are among the factors that contribute to the current levels of neonatal mortality.
This can be explained by the "associative assertions" that patients show when they give a positive evaluation in both quality of life (high mean scores) and strong knowledge and positive attitude to treatment adherence, as well as the negative evaluation when the lowest mean scores in terms of weak knowledge and negative attitude toward treatment adherence.
The Joint Learning Initiative on Human Resources for Health [ 15] identified five challenges to human resources for health: overall shortages, imbalance in skill mix, inequitable distribution and migration of providers, a weak knowledge base, and a negative work environment.
All the respondents thought some means of continuing education would help them improve their areas of weak knowledge.
The weak knowledge could be a result of deficiencies in the basic nursing education, or lack of continuing maintenance training during working years.
