Benefiting the NHS through innovation
How to ensure international health partnerships are genuinely reciprocal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21879439 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hamdi Issa (Imperial College London), William Townsend (0000-0003-3975-2448, Tropical Health and Education Trust, London, UK, corresponding author), Matthew Harris (0000-0002-8201-5817, Imperial College London) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | Suppl 6 |
| Pages | e004936 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BMJ Global Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2059-7908 • E-ISSN: 2059-7908 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-004936 |
| PMID | 34853066 |
| OpenAlex | W3216391354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
box International health partnerships (IHPs) are institutional arrangements between high-income country (HIC) health institutions and counterparts, usually in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), and typically involve secondments or volunteering placements to support clinical delivery, capacity building and health systems strengthening. Increasingly, reciprocity is viewed as key to an effective IHP.1 There are few reasons to contest the principle, for example, because it can allow both sides of a partnership to benefit, but it is nonetheless striking how poorly conceptualised it is as a term and practice within IHPs. The report, Global Health Partnerships: the UK contribution to health in developing countries,2 placed ‘mutual learning’ at the core of how institutions should approach IHPs. It propelled the
Business · Capacity building · CONTEST · Economic growth · Economics · General partnership · Global health · Health care · Political science · Public relations · Reciprocal · Sociology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Engineering · Global Health and Surgery · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |