King's College London, Centre for Global Health Education, Weston Education Centre, Cutcombe Road, London, SE5 9RT, UK.
Int Health. 2010 Sep;2(3):165-71. doi: 10.1016/j.inhe.2010.04.004.
The need to strengthen health capacity in developing countries is widely documented. The World Health Organization has called for an increase in the number of health workers in all countries experiencing critical shortages, a significant scaling-up of training and more efficient use of existing health workers. Health Links, long-term mutually beneficial partnerships between UK health institutions and their counterparts in developing countries, are helping to fill these gaps. Links allow for the reciprocal transfer of knowledge and skills between partners, enabling the UK's expertise in health service delivery and training to be channelled towards the needs of those in developing countries, while also bringing a wide range of benefits to the UK. Examples of Health Links in Ethiopia demonstrate such benefits. An increasingly supportive policy environment is enabling a significant expansion in the number of Links. However, the quality of these Links is critical to their impact and thus there is a need both to continue to support those engaging in Links to develop sustainable, mutually beneficial strategic partnerships, and to strengthen the body of evidence of their impacts.
加强发展中国家的卫生能力是有充分记录的。世界卫生组织呼吁增加所有面临严重短缺的国家的卫生工作者人数，大幅扩大培训，并更有效地利用现有卫生工作者。英国卫生机构与其在发展中国家的对应机构之间的长期互利伙伴关系“卫生链接”正在帮助填补这些空白。这些链接允许合作伙伴之间知识和技能的互惠转移，使英国在卫生服务提供和培训方面的专业知识能够满足发展中国家的需求，同时也给英国带来了广泛的利益。埃塞俄比亚的卫生链接示例展示了这些好处。日益有利的政策环境使链接的数量大幅增加。然而，这些链接的质量对其影响至关重要，因此需要继续支持参与链接的机构发展可持续的、互利的战略伙伴关系，并加强对其影响的证据基础。
