Efforts made by the host country to achieve collaboration In relation to the efforts made by the host country to facilitate collaboration with international, national and
country of origin scientific institutions, the figures ob- tained for the total averages (5.86, 4.96 and 4.62; Table 1b) were above the average value (3.5). However, those corresponding to health sciences researchers were slightly below these total averages (5.77, 4.82 and 4.47; Table 1b).