Empowering Women and Strengthening Health Systems and Services Through Investing in Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise : Lessons from Lower-Income Countries: Workshop Summary

In September 2014, the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education and the Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety of the Institute of Medicine convened a workshop on empowering women and strengthening health systems and services through investing in nursing and midwifery enterprise. Experts in women's empowerment, development, health systems' capacity building, social enterprise and finance, and nursing and midwifery explored the intersections between and among these domains. Innovative and promising models for more sustainable health care delivery that embed women's empowerment in their missions were examined. Participants also discussed uptake and scale; adaptation, translation, and replication; financing; and collaboration and partnership. Empowering Women and Strengthening Health Systems and Services Through Investing in Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop. This report highlights examples and explores broad frameworks for existing and potential intersections of different sectors that could lead to better health and well-being of women around the world, and how lessons learned from these examples might be applied in the United States. Table of ContentsFront Matter1 IntroductionPART I2 Women's Empowerment3 Strengthening Health SystemsPART II4 Nursing and Midwifery Education and Enterprise5 Country Perspectives6 Innovations and Organizational Strategies to Strengthen Health Systems7 Social Enterprise and Investment in HealthPART III8 Transferability of Models and Lessons Learned9 Models for the United States and the Larger Global ContextAppendix A: Workshop AgendaAppendix B: Speaker Biographical SketchesAppendix C: List of ParticipantsAppendix D: Innovations in the Provision of Health Services Using Empowered Nurses and Midwives in the Philippines--Oscar F. Picazo, Valerie Gilbert T. Ulep, Ida Pantig, Danica Ortiz, Melanie Aldeon, and Nina Ashley de la Cruz