Promoting partnerships

Partnerships for promoting prevention.

I n an elegant analysis from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Rasmussen-Torvik and colleagues demonstrate that a higher degree of adherence to the American Heart Association's 7 health and behavior factors recommended for prevention of cardiovascular disease was also related to substantially reduced incidence of cancer, over a 17-to 19-year follow-up. 1 As one might expect, the st...

Roundtable: promoting partnerships for regional healthcare preparedness and response.

ON APRIL 4, 2007, THE CENTER FOR Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) convened an invitational meeting to examine the critical elements of regional healthcare partnerships for emergency preparedness and response and to facilitate communication among the federal officials, regional healthcare leaders and institutions, and other stakeholders. Participants included sen...

Active living for assisted living: promoting partnerships within a systems framework.

In response to a growing need for assistance among our aging population, assisted-living facilities have been designed to fill the widening chasm between community living and nursing care. Although sedentary behavior has been linked to functional limitations and disability, no comprehensive information exists about the social and physical environments and the programming available to promote ph...

The role of South-North partnerships in promoting shared learning and knowledge transfer

While it is clear that hospitals in developing countries need to improve quality of health services and improve patient safety, hospitals in high resource countries need to do the same. Most often the focus on improvement through institutional health partnerships involves hospital teams from high resource settings attempting to aid and teach hospital staff in low resource settings, particularly...

The Importance of Partnerships in Promoting Entrepreneurship Education – Case Study of a Group of Schools