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Front. Med.
Sec. Healthcare Professions Education
Volume 11 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1400850
This article is part of the Research Topic Insights in Healthcare Professions Education: 2024 View all 11 articles
A Model of Co-creation: Strengthening Primary Health Care in Ghana through an Innovative "Nyansapo" Partnership
Provisionally accepted
Princess Ruhama Acheampong
1*
Kulamakan Mahan Kulasegaram
2
Kofi Akohene Mensah
1*
Marie- Therese Ndiaye
2*
Wilberforce Owusu-Ansah
1*
Ellis Owusu-dabo
1
Joseph Owusu
1*
Jamie Rodas
2*
Katherine Rouleau
2
Jennifer Wilson
2*
Olivia Wilson
3*- 1 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
- 2 University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 3 University College Dublin, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
The Africa Health Collaborative (AHC) initiative embarked on a transformative ten-year collaboration with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Toronto (U of T) to co-create continuing education programs geared towards augmenting the proficiency of primary care practitioners in Ghana. While upholding core principles within the AHC framework, emphasizing respect, inclusivity, equity, reciprocity, ethics, dynamism, and stewardship, seven teams of U of T and KNUST faculty engaged in collaborative efforts to design, administer, and evaluate five in-person "short courses" in Ghana on Palliative Care, Quality Improvement for Health Professionals, Prehospital Emergency Care, Community Emergency Care, and Emergency Preparedness and Response to Epidemic-Prone Diseases to approximately 100 Ghanaian primary care professionals. This paper describes a model of cocreation, highlights lessons learned from a robust evaluation process, and proposes that this cocreation model can strengthen PHC in Ghana and ultimately transform health systems in Africa.
Keywords: Global Health (MeSH [H02.403.371]), Sustainable development goals - SDGs, Family Medicine and Primary Care, Health systems (source: MeSH NLM), Higher education institutions (HEIs), Co-creation activities, Primary Health Care (MeSH [N04.590.233.727]), global health partnership
Received: 26 Mar 2024; Accepted: 14 Nov 2024.
Copyright: © 2024 Acheampong, Kulasegaram, Mensah, Ndiaye, Owusu-Ansah, Owusu-dabo, Owusu, Rodas, Rouleau, Wilson and Wilson. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Princess Ruhama Acheampong, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Kofi Akohene Mensah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Marie- Therese Ndiaye, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A1, Ontario, Canada
Wilberforce Owusu-Ansah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Joseph Owusu, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Jamie Rodas, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A1, Ontario, Canada
Jennifer Wilson, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A1, Ontario, Canada
Olivia Wilson, University College Dublin, Dublin, Dublin 4, County Dublin, Ireland
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