Reply To: Discussion Forum 1

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2. How does my own professional expertise and organizational access suggest where I might be most be effective in developing and launching an intervention?
Advocating and system mobilization to integrate rehabilitation into health system.

3) What formative research might be needed to understand the precise intervention that would be most appropriate and impactful towards overcoming the challenges I identify?
Rehabilitation situation/status assessment and analysis is important. Based on its findings on which specific building block the rehabilitation context/status has gaps needs to be well analyzed and formulate strategies and recommendations. Example if rehabilitation financing of a particular country is weak or if there is not much budget allocated for rehabilitation or allocated rehabilitation budget needs to be tracked from national health account then likewise, activities recommendation needs to be developed/ planned.

4) When considering potential interventions, what factors related to implementation do I need to consider?
Factors such as system readiness, stake holders’ acceptance, resource availability such as budget, human resource and timeline needs to be considered.

5) What implicit biases may be at work in my culture or context and how do those implicit biases impact an individual’s ability to access and benefit from rehabilitation?
Implementation biases such as against persons based on their gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, income level, educational level, employment, health status. Those implicit biases can impact an individual’s ability to access and benefit from rehabilitation by getting delay in rehabilitation intervention, making high out of pocket expenditure.