Our Site Using Google Responsibility for health is shared among individuals, community groups, health professionals, health service institutions and governments. They must work together towards a health care system which contributes to the pursuit of health.
Collaboration is an essential and valued component of nursing practice.
Partnerships allow the School of Nursing to contribute in unique ways to coordinated actions directed at health improvement and management of health problems. This new multidisciplinary training program addresses contemporary social problems and issues facing at-risk and vulnerable groups across the life course. Participating units are the Department Educational Psychology, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, School of Nursing, and the School of Social Work. Particular attention is given to the concentrations of interventions in social services, health, and education, family and community studies, social policy, and methodology. The program is sponsored by the UW Graduate School.