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Application of a partnership model for transformative and sustainable international development.

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Powell, DL; Gilliss, CL; Hewitt, HH; Flint, EP
Published in: Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)
January 2010

There are differences of intent and impact between short-term and long-term engagement of U.S. academic institutions with communities of need in developing nations. Global health programs that produce long-term transformative change rather than transient relief are more likely to be sustainable and in ethical harmony with expressed needs of a region or community. This article explores characteristics of successful ethical partnerships in global health and the challenges that threaten them, introducing a consensus community engagement model as a framework for building relationships, evolving an understanding of needs, and collaboratively developing solutions and responses to priority health needs in underserved regions of the world. The community engagement model is applied to a case study of an initiative by a U.S. school of nursing to establish long-term relationships with the nursing community in the Caribbean region with the goal of promoting transformative change through collaborative development of programs and services addressing health care needs of the region's growing elderly population and the increasing prevalence of noncommunicable chronic diseases. Progress of this ongoing long-term relationship is analyzed in the context of the organizational, philosophical, ethical, and resource commitments embodied in this approach to initiation of transformative and sustainable improvements in public health.

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Published In

Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)

DOI

EISSN

1525-1446

ISSN

0737-1209

Publication Date

January 2010

Volume

27

Issue

1

Start / End Page

54 / 70

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Change
  • Schools, Nursing
  • Program Development
  • Principle-Based Ethics
  • Power, Psychological
  • Pan American Health Organization
  • Organizational Case Studies
  • Nursing Research
  • Nursing
  • North Carolina
 

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Powell, D. L., Gilliss, C. L., Hewitt, H. H., & Flint, E. P. (2010). Application of a partnership model for transformative and sustainable international development. Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.), 27(1), 54–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1446.2009.00827.x
Powell, Dorothy L., Catherine L. Gilliss, Hermi H. Hewitt, and Elizabeth P. Flint. “Application of a partnership model for transformative and sustainable international development.Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.) 27, no. 1 (January 2010): 54–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1446.2009.00827.x.
Powell DL, Gilliss CL, Hewitt HH, Flint EP. Application of a partnership model for transformative and sustainable international development. Public health nursing (Boston, Mass). 2010 Jan;27(1):54–70.
Powell, Dorothy L., et al. “Application of a partnership model for transformative and sustainable international development.Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.), vol. 27, no. 1, Jan. 2010, pp. 54–70. Epmc, doi:10.1111/j.1525-1446.2009.00827.x.
Powell DL, Gilliss CL, Hewitt HH, Flint EP. Application of a partnership model for transformative and sustainable international development. Public health nursing (Boston, Mass). 2010 Jan;27(1):54–70.
Journal cover image

Published In

Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)

DOI

EISSN

1525-1446

ISSN

0737-1209

Publication Date

January 2010

Volume

27

Issue

1

Start / End Page

54 / 70

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Change
  • Schools, Nursing
  • Program Development
  • Principle-Based Ethics
  • Power, Psychological
  • Pan American Health Organization
  • Organizational Case Studies
  • Nursing Research
  • Nursing
  • North Carolina