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CHAPTER 5: Resources for Global Health Partnerships

DOI:

10.1891/9780826118691.0005

Authors

  • Leffers, Jeanne M.
  • Magny-Normilus, Cherlie
  • Lawton, Alexis
  • Abrams, Sarah E.

Abstract

This chapter explores the resources that are essential for any health program to succeed and are key components of partnership and sustainability. Resources can be considered to be human, material, or financial in nature. Reports indicate that a shortage of human, material, and financial resources adversely affect the ability of nurses to meet their professional expectations to promote and restore population health. Nurses are often involved directly with each of these types of resources. The chapter then explains the Regis College Haiti Project (RCHP) developed by International Nurse Faculty Partnership Initiative (INFPI) to equip the educators and build up the human infrastructure of nursing and nursing education in Haiti. It also presents a case study that explains the importance of planning and ongoing evaluation for academic partnerships in global health settings.