Academic-Practice Partnerships for Community Health Workforce Development
Titel:
Academic-Practice Partnerships for Community Health Workforce Development
Auteur:
Hawley, Suzanne R. Molgaard, Craig A. Ablah, Elizabeth Orr, Shirley A. Oler-Manske, Julia E. St. Romain, Theresa
Verschenen in:
Journal of community health nursing
Paginering:
Jaargang 24 (2007) nr. 3 pagina's 155-165
Jaar:
2007-07-11
Inhoud:
Despite increasing attention to academic-practice partnerships for health practice and workforce development, guidelines for how to implement such partnerships are few. The Kansas Public Health Workforce and Leadership Development (WALD) Center provides a successful example of such a partnership. The WALD Center implements public health education and training projects through a collaborative process of health needs identification, program conceptualization, research, and program evaluation. Such coordination allows for continuous practitioner-oriented program development and the sharing of a rural state's scarce resources between interconnected projects. The WALD Center's methods provide a model for academic-practice partnerships for community health practice and workforce development, even in environments with scarce health resources.