This article describes a participatory action research process that brought together community members, representatives from community-based organizations and service providers, and academic researchers to collect, interpret, and apply community information to address issues related to the health of women and children in a geographically defined urban area. It describes the development and admi...

One of the main dimensions of the added value of EU cohesion policy is its capacity to enhance cooperation and coordination in the delivery of the regional development policy through the partnership principle. However, research to date suggests that the lack of traditions of collaborative policy-making in some Member States can result in patchy application of partnership. This prompts questions...

In April 1999, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) published the document Paradigm Shift: Injury from problem to solution. This document provided a comprehensive overview of the burden of injury in Australia, and the current status of injury research. Future directions for injury research were identified. Later that year the Health Research Partnerships in Injury Committee ...

Objective Involving decision makers in collaborative research partnerships can help increase the relevance and timeliness of the research question, and ensure the results are more readily applied in practice. These partnerships offer great benefits but also unique challenges. We will discuss some of these challenges, as identified from our recent study (Canadian Institutes of Health Research FR...

Introduction Health partnerships are flourishing between institutions in the UK and lowand middle-income countries. Over the past five years, the Health Partnership Scheme (HPS), a UK government-funded programme managed by UK NGO THET, has supported health partnerships to undertake more than 200 projects in lowand middle-income countries [1]. All HPS-funded health partnerships, and most others,...

BACKGROUND Our research team has undertaken implementation of evidence in the form of practice guideline recommendations for populations in hospital, community, and long-term care settings with diverse provider and patient populations (people with chronic wounds, e.g., pressure and leg ulcers, heart failure, stroke, diabetes, palliative care, cancer, and maternity care). Translating evidence in...

Large numbers of social policy initiatives and community organizations are currently engaged in “community building” efforts that seek, in part, to strengthen informal relationships and the organizational infrastructure of communities and to build the capacity of communities to manage and foster community change. One critical requirement for improving such practice is for communities to have gr...

314 THE WORLDS OF NURSING education and practice have developed along parallel tracks resulting in cultures with different expectations and work styles. Leaders in contemporary nursing education acknowledge the separation from practice and the difficulty of education to keep pace with the speed of change occurring in the delivery of health care. Today’s nursing leaders are setting the stage for...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity remains a significant global problem with immediate and long-term individual health and societal consequences. Targets for change should include the most potent and predictive factors for obesity at all levels of the personal, social and physical environments. The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living ('the Center') is a public-private partnership that was ...