TY - JOUR AU - Loh, Lawrence C. AU - Valdman, Olga AU - Dacso, Matthew M. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/05/02 TI - Coalicion de Salud Comunitaria (COSACO): using a Healthy Community Partnership framework to integrate short-term global health experiences into broader community development JO - Globalization and Health SP - 15 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - There is growing concern that short-term experiences in global health experiences (STEGH), undertaken by healthcare providers, trainees, and volunteers from high income countries in lower and middle income countries, risk harming the community by creating a parallel system of care separate from established community development efforts. At the same time, the inclusion of non-traditional actors in health planning has been the basis of the development of many Healthy Community Partnerships (HCP) being rolled out in Canada and the United States. These partnerships aim to bring all stakeholders with a role to play in health to the table to align efforts, goals and programs towards broad community health goals. SN - 1744-8603 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-016-0155-y DO - 10.1186/s12992-016-0155-y ID - Loh2016 ER -