Section 6. Education of health personnel and delivery of health services

Abstract

The group discussed different ways of more closely integrating the health delivery system of a country and its health education system. It was agreed that such an integration would inevitably create tensions, but there was a very real need to look at ways of achieving co-operation, either by informal or formal means, or even by the total integration of existing organizations currently responsible for both health care and education. In particular, the group felt that the current conservative approach of the medical faculty not intervening in the health delivery system must give way (and is in fact giving way in many instances) to a commitment on the part of all concerned to establish a unified approach. The group recommended that there should be: