Medical Education Capacity-Building Partnerships for Health Care Systems Development.

نویسندگان

  • Tracy L Rabin
  • Harriet Mayanja-Kizza
  • Asghar Rastegar
چکیده

Health care workforce development is a key pillar of global health systems strengthening that requires investment in health care worker training institutions. This can be achieved by developing partnerships between training institutions in resource-limited and resource-rich areas and leveraging the unique expertise and opportunities both have to offer. To realize their full potential, however, these relationships must be equitable. In this article, we use a previously described global health ethics framework and our ten-year experience with the Makerere University-Yale University (MUYU) Collaboration to provide an example of an equity-focused global health education partnership.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • AMA journal of ethics

دوره 18 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016