Factors explaining the relatively poor performance of Australian anti-submarine forces include their typically low levels of experience and training, shortages of ASW assets, problems with co-ordinating searches and the poor sonar conditions in the waters surrounding Australia.
Insufficiencies in health personnel training, shortages of basic obstetrical equipment, and dramatic, even violent interactions between care givers and parturients have been reported [ 8, 9].
Though at age 16 he was considered old to start his training, a shortage of male ballet dancers in post-World War II Europe led ballet teacher Sonia Gaskell to invite him in 1952 to join her Ballet Recital, which later evolved into the DNB.
The possibility of conflict might be reduced by focusing training on shortage occupations, but is unlikely to be eliminated.
Despite the current efforts to enable proper training, the shortage of experts will remain a bottleneck for at least another 5 years or so.
Overreliance on didactic training and shortage of locations and equipment for mentoring arrangements hinder CHO preparedness.
Inadequate knowledge of the facilitators emanates from different sources such as differences in educational backgrounds, problems relating to training, and shortage of master teachers to train the facilitators.
Placement shortages have derived from limited funding for training, staff shortages, patient availability, competition for placements between health care disciplines and an increasing number of students [ 10- 15].
If this happens, says the trade union Unison, nurses will face debts of more than £50,000 after three years' training, and shortages will get worse.
Finally, our study contributes to evidence showing that health workers may react to a complex and often stressful working environment created by lack of training, staff shortages and resource constraints by adopting coping strategies in the form of predatory behaviour and brain drain [ 50, 51] or with "street-level bureaucracy" [ 28].
