Nurses' collaboration for policy development: Equity and access to health care

摘要

Nurses from around the globe will gather in May at the ICN 25th Quadrennial Congress in Melbourne, Australia to explore the theme of equity and access to health care. In the March issue, four articles illustrate this theme in terms of collaboration in policy research and development between nurses from more and less developed countries. International collaboration is also the theme of this issue's guest editorial. Collaboration in international partnerships as a means to achieve improved health access and health outcomes in less developed countries is the concern of three articles in this issue. First, a literature review {Searching for collaboration in international nursing partnerships, pages 31-36) involves a policy analysis using the DeSantis conceptual structure.1 The authors strongly advise that the inclusion of nurses from less developed countries be mandatory when funders approve studies of international partnerships promoted from the developed world.