A total of 29% of the respondents formally recognized some clients as being in a priority group, 26% informally recognized priority clients, 16% recognized priority clients both formally and informally, and 27% did not recognize priority clients.
With maternal mortality in the Lao PDR estimated at 405 per thousand live births [ 12] and only 19% of deliveries assisted by skilled birth personnel, establishing a cadre of health workers with midwifery skills is a recognized priority for government and donors alike.
Agencies providing community withdrawal management programs (83%) were most likely to recognize priority groups.
A wide spectrum of executive deficits have also been described, including problems performing goal-oriented tasks, recognizing priority patterns, and planning [ 11, 12], along with diminished verbal fluency [ 13] and information processing speed [ 14, 15].
However, in line with the CBPR principle of recognizing priorities identified by the community [ 27], two studies focused on obtaining long-term priorities for autism research from the community [ 21, 60].
Napoleon convoked a Sanhedrin in 1807 to create a modern definition of Judaism that renounced Jewish nationhood and national aspirations, asserted that rabbinic authority was purely spiritual, and recognized the priority of civil over religious authority even in matters of intermarriage.
In this point, he worked in the same way as Byzantine philosophers of the time such as Psellos and Italos, who recognized the priority of Platonic philosophy on this issue.
Conceptual-methodological approaches in understanding the dynamics and tendencies of directional changes in landscapes include a universally recognized top priority approach, i.e. the functional-integration principle of temporal observations of self-regulation processes occurring in the case of an inter-component exchange of substances.
Due to their carcinogenicity and toxicity to both human and non-human organisms, PAHs have been recognized as priority pollutants by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [ 3].
Nuyens [ 11] suggests " while most countries have recognized that priority setting needs to be an iterative process, few have made this process a cyclical, continual one" [ 11, p. 320].
Unless health-sector development is not a recognized high priority of a country, it is not likely that there will be enough backing for the health sector to carry forward the extension of services.
