Hawley Suzanne R, Molgaard Craig A, Ablah Elizabeth, Orr Shirley A, Oler-Manske Julia E, St Romain Theresa
University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Wichita, KS 67214-3199, USA.
J Community Health Nurs. 2007 Fall;24(3):155-65. doi: 10.1080/07370010701429553.
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.
尽管对于促进健康实践和劳动力发展的学术-实践伙伴关系的关注日益增加，但关于如何实施此类伙伴关系的指导方针却很少。堪萨斯州公共卫生劳动力与领导力发展（WALD）中心提供了这种伙伴关系的一个成功范例。WALD中心通过健康需求识别、项目概念化、研究和项目评估的协作过程来实施公共卫生教育和培训项目。这种协调有助于以从业者为导向进行持续的项目开发，并在相互关联的项目之间共享农村州的稀缺资源。即使在卫生资源稀缺的环境中，WALD中心的方法也为社区卫生实践和劳动力发展的学术-实践伙伴关系提供了一个模式。
