The first part of Weinert's definition implies that competences are a dynamic (trainable) cognitive concept, representing an essential prerequisite to competent behavior.
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We need to expand and strengthen that expertise in institutions and to foster competent behavior specialists, but also to increase the behavioral expertise of all health cadres.
However, even smaller changes of this kind still represented improvement, which goes against the apprehension that young people with competent behavior will imitate the poorer behavior of their fellow youth welfare recipients.
Hill and Madhere [ 23] found teacher support to increase socially competent behavior in the classroom.
Moreover, young people exhibited significantly more socially competent behavior after receiving youth welfare services.
Patients completed a baseline survey which included a measure of physician culturally competent behaviors.
Similarly, improvements on dimensions of teacher-rated classroom social competent behaviors were found favoring ME program students.
Those reporting more frequent culturally competent behaviors also had higher odds of believing CHWs would help reduce health disparities (OR = 3.58, 95% CI = 1.61-7.92).
Furthermore, to increase the adequate exchange of information care providers need to be trained to work with professional interpreters, and instructed in other culturally competent behaviors [ 28- 30].
