Although the proportion of women whose delivery was attended by a skilled health-worker has only changed in recent years, the competency of the health system may have changed throughout the past three decades.
However, different socio-cultural norms need to be better understood, as such understanding could inform service provision, increase the 'cultural competency' of the healthcare system, 21 and enhance service quality for ethnic minority patients.
Finally, understanding the context and the competencies of the health system are also key to managing expectations.
2. To study the development of graduates' competencies in the system of continuing education.
It would be nice to know that we can rely on the competency of a school system on the other side of the country to give us good citizens where we live today and where we may live a generation from now.
He notes how "packed out" the hospital was and talked about his internal struggle to justify both the competency and yet inadequacy of the system that let him down: " I think we are very lucky to have this system and that we've got it at all…they were just so busy and I do understand…there was nothing they could do and it was just going to be one of those things" (male, 64, private).
By running the simulation for different information dissemination strategies, the effect of disturbing loads on the total performance of the strategies can be analyzed and the competency of the newly introduced information system architecture can be seen.
The findings of this study support our previous studies assessing the competency of the Tasmanian devil immune system (Woods et al., 2007; Kreiss et al., 2008).
The identification of T cell and B cell subsets and their distribution has provided some insight into the competency of the Tasmanian devil immune system, however, the function of T cells depends on the presence and function of APC, making APC an important cell to investigate.
This has prompted research into the competency of the Tasmanian devil's immune system.
