While we lack much information on user-group perceptions of research and researchers, the project technical report explicitly mentioned the difficulty in getting together experts and policymakers to hold policy dialogues as an obstacle to the projects' functioning, suggesting a generally low level of policymaker enthusiasm on the topic.
CHWs' records may be an important source for vital statistics, as it was for the Brazilian northeast and north in the first decade of the implementation of the PACS there The overburden of the programme coordinators, with numerous responsibilities and accumulation of different functions, is an obstacle to the smooth functioning of the programme.
Some observers have seen the issue of volunteerism as an obstacle to the successful functioning of PDCs.
The great majority of participants thought that navigation of the website was easy and was no obstacle to the practical functioning of the course.
These factors represent an obstacle to the basic function of priority setting, which is to identify important health issues and mobilize the resources needed to address them.
Obstacles to the project arose.
The present results show that the scarce and contradictory data about the nature and parameters of the substance that surrounds the surface of the HCBs of the otolithic organs is a great obstacle to understanding the function of the HCB.
But there is one glaring obstacle to it truly functioning that way: the same economic inequality that infuses and segregates our society along race and class similarly segregates our schools into institutions offering astonishing opportunities and institutions struggling to keep up with the needs that arrive every day without equitable funding.
Functional redundancy is a significant obstacle to the identification of gene functions.
For Ross, who was the State Department's director of policy planning under President George H. W. Bush, the special Middle East coördinator under President Bill Clinton, and an adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the settlements are evidently problematic only insofar as they present an obstacle to a smoothly functioning bilateral relationship.
The president's program extends the current health care system — mostly employer-based coverage, administered by commercial health insurers, with care delivered by fee-for-service doctors and hospitals — by removing the biggest obstacles to that system's functioning like a competitive marketplace.
