Assessing how global health partnerships function: an equity-informed critical interpretive synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Global health partnerships (GHPs) are situated in complex political and economic relationships and involve partners with different needs and interests (e.g., government agencies, non-governmental organizations, corporations, universities, professional associations, philanthropic organizations and communities). As part of a mixed methods study designed to develop an equity-sensitive tool to support more equity-centred North-South GHPs, this critical interpretive synthesis examined reported assessments of GHPs.

Results

We examined 30 peer-reviewed articles for power dynamics, equity and inequities, and contradictions or challenges encountered in North-South partnerships. Among articles reviewed, authors most often situated GHPs around a topical focus on research, ca

SUBMITTER: Plamondon KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8254362 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature