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Section 6: Recommendations for Moving Forward |
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IEHP Report: Brain gain, drain and waste -
Section 6: Recommendations for Moving Forward
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To better map out a way forward, we asked our participants to suggest recommendations for changes to key policies or programs. Most of these relate directly to the barriers and facilitators we discussed in the previous two sections (see Table 5.1), but some address issues which were not identified. Similar to what we outlined for the barriers and facilitators, some of the recommended changes are profession-specific, and some cut across professional boundaries. Where possible, we outline whether the suggestions made by the IEHPs we interviewed resonate with those identified in the policy literature reviewed in the introduction. We also highlight practices identified as some of the most promising that could be scaled up to make better use of human resources of IEHPs. We begin, as did many of our participants, with recommended changes for some of the more proximate barriers they experience and then broaden this out to the seeming mismatch between the present health human resources shortage and the paradoxical processes that do not enable IEHPs to help meet the growing need for their services.
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