Properly designed modelling assumptions on effective soil loss are a key pre-requisite to improve our understanding of the magnitude of nutrients that are mobilized through soil erosion and the resultant effects.
The identification of prognostic indicators is a pre-requisite to improving the targeting of services, particularly in light of controversial results of recent studies on treatment efficacy [ 6- 9].
Development partners and governments understand the importance of developing research capacity in LMIC as a pre-requisite to improving health outcomes [ 13, 49- 52] and addressing the gaps in MDG 4 and 5 [ 53].
Martinez and Collins report that competitive salaries and the "means to do work" are essential pre-requisites to improving staff performance and that evidence suggests that interventions without these components in place are ineffective [ 20].
Education and training is recognised as an essential means of equipping clinicians with the requisite 'safety skills' to improve patient safety in the workplace [ 16].
Mechanical maintenance of F-16 engines is carried out as a team effort involving 3 4 skilled engine technicians, but the details of its procedures and requisites change constantly, to improve safety, optimize resources, and respond to knowledge learned from field outcomes.
Nevertheless, specific experience of the multidisciplinary team (surgeons, medical oncologists, radiotherapists, pathologists, radiologists) is a very important pre-requisite in succeeding to improve patients' quality of life and, hopefully, outcome.
Nurse practitioners emerge with the requisite interprofessional collaborative practice competencies to improve oral and systemic health outcomes.
However, should Honduras bulge the net on more occasions than Switzerland and should France take down Ecuador by the requisite amount that allows Honduras' goal difference to improve beyond that of Switzerland's and Ecuador's, it is they who will be popping the Cristal in the post-match celebrations.
Knowledge alone is not sufficient to improve cardiovascular health but it is a vital pre-requisite for improving attitude, behaviors and practices towards better cardiovascular health [ 16].
Such information can be used to improve quality of care and health systems responsiveness, pre-requisites for accountable health systems [ 24].
