Addressing Family Medicine’s Capacity to Improve Health Equity Through Collaboration, Accountability and Coalition-Building

Building capacity to improve economic health.

The economic health of a community is vitally important for attracting and retaining businesses and for creating an environment in which people want to live, work, and play. Rural communities in North Carolina rely on a variety of partners and programs to build local capacity for job creation and the development of quality-of-life amenities.

Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Managers’ Performance in West Asia

Addressing health systems strengthening through an health equity lens

Addressing inequalities in health outcomes especially for women and children is, perhaps, the most important challenge towards achieving sustainable health gains. Despite impressive improvements in overall indicators of health over recent decades, health inequalities within and between countries persist and, in many cases, have widened and continue to widen. At the global level, the survival ga...

Building Research Capacity in Africa: Equity and Global Health Collaborations

Global health is a growing academic field where high-income country (HIC) faculty and students work in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs), especially in Africa; learn about new cultures, settings, and diseases; and possibly develop an expertise to address existing and emerging challenges in health care [1]. Global health has brought beneficial HIC medical knowledge particularly to African c...

Capacity building in obstetrics and gynaecology through academic partnerships to improve global women's health beyond 2015.

Significant progress has been made since Allen Rosenfield termed maternal mortality a neglected tragedy and asked ‘where is the M in MCH?’ Recent data from the World Health Organization demonstrates significant declines in maternal mortality ratios, with a 49% reduction in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), from 990 in 1990 to 510 per 100 000 live births in 2013. Still, Millennium Development Goal (MDG)...