Education and health care (Communist policy) gave rise to aspirational goals (capitalist outcome).
Dismantling ageism changes from aspirational goal to certain outcome.
Together, these have a tendency to create a gap between the aspirational views of what policy outcomes should look like, often promoted by the idealised views of scientists, and what these outcomes really look like once they have been through the mangle of policy development.
However, despite continued professional appeals [ 5, 6] this standard has remained largely aspirational with little evidence of routine outcome measurement in allied health professional practice, and continued evidence of ambivalence towards outcome measurement by staff [ 7- 11].
Undoubtedly, clinical educators have a duty to align their teaching methods with the course objectives and intended outcomes, although this notion would appear aspirational when one considers that 16% of clinical teachers are unacquainted with the style of curriculum.
The extent to which this mix proved to be an elixir, particularly for India's young, aspirational, technology savvy generation, would be obvious from the outcome of the elections.
It should however be noted that in most cases, the benefits in question are rather aspirational in the sense that they comprise the expected outcome of research, including generalisable knowledge.
The development of KPIs, with defined minimum and aspirational standards, allows a standardised way of monitoring and auditing clinical quality outcomes.
They represent aspirational ideals of what societies strive to create for their members (fairness in outcomes) and how they believe this should be accomplished (fairness in opportunity).
Making real world examples rather than aspirational attributes the focus of leadership development leads to more concrete conversations and healthier outcomes.
