- Title
- Twinning with Tonga : the experiences of Tongan stakeholders with a long-term partnership with regional Victoria, Australia
- Creator
- Mornane, Carolyn; Franc, Michelle; Waddington, Maureen; Peck, Blake; Terry, Daniel
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/172966
- Identifier
- vital:14591
- Identifier
- http://www.hrpub.org/download/20190530/UJPH8-17613110.pdf
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.13189/ujph.2019.070308
- Identifier
- ISBN:
- Abstract
- Twinning programs in health have gained increased recognition as a WHO preferred strategy for providing a sustainable strategy for enhancing the delivery of best practice healthcare globally. The Tonga Twinning Program (TTP), represents a longstanding relationship of some twenty-five years between The Ministry of Health in Tonga and St John of God Hospital, Ballarat, Australia and provides a compelling example of what can be achieved. This article presents the findings from a longitudinal exploration of the experiences and perceptions of the TTP through the voices of those key-stakeholders situated in Tonga who have engaged with the program. Informed by the tenets of hermeneutic phenomenology, a modified thematic analysis highlighted two major themes, ‘A shared mission’ and ‘The outcomes are more than the tangibles’, which supported by a series of sub-themes, identify the core components of the experience of the TTP. This study suggests that the TTP has supported a collective sense of bringing the very best available knowledge and skills to the people of Tonga and has fostered a genuine and open dialogue between partners as a mechanism for change that goes well beyond simply a capacity to replicate skills and instead has establish a genuine reciprocity akin to being a family.
- Publisher
- Horizon Research Publishing
- Relation
- Universal Journal of Public Health Vol. 7, no. 3 (2019), p. 144-150
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright©2019 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services; Twinning; Healthcare Partnerships; Qualitative; Tonga
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