A Partnership to Improve Health Care in Kosovo: Dartmouth Medical School and Kosovar nurses worked together on a two-year project to rebuild primary health care in the postconflict city of Gjilan

Authors

Fred C. Pond, Dartmouth CollegeFollow
Ellen Thompson
A. Laurie Harding
Mary Taylor
Cristina Hammond

Abstract

Partnership between a health municipality in Kosova, in the former Republic of Yugoslavia and Dartmouth Medical School, New Hampshire, to rebuild the primary care system after the war. The project, which included nurses from both countries, is described, focusing on the changing roles of nurses.

Keywords

health improvement, nursing care, Kosovo, Kosova, nurse role

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2016

Recommended Citation

Thompson, Ellen Laurie, A. Harding, Fred Pond, Cristina Hammond, and Mary Taylor. "A Partnership to Improve Health Care in Kosovo: Dartmouth Medical School and Kosovar Nurses Worked Together on a Two-year Project to Rebuild Primary Health Care in the Postconflict City of Gjilan." AJN, American Journal of Nursing 106.11 (2006): 72CC-2DD. Web.