Question

Using a professional journal, the newspaper, or the web, locate an article that describes the development of a community partnership. Select a partnership that focuses on health and has at least three partners, if possible.

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Answer 1

Collaborative partnerships (people and organizations from multiple sectors working together in common purpose) are a prominent strategy for community health improvement. This review examines evidence about the effects of collaborative partnerships on community and systems change (environmental changes), community wide behavior change, and more distant population level health outcomes. We also consider the conditions and factors that may determine whether collaborative partnerships are effective. The review concludes with specific recommendations designed to enhance research and practice and to set conditions for promoting community health.collaborative partnership is an alliance among people and organizations from multiple sectors, such as schools and businesses, working together to achieve a common purpose. In public health, collaborative partnerships attempt to improve conditions and outcomes related to the health and well being of entire communities. When the focus is a community, those affected may include people who share a common place, such as a rural community or an urban neighborhood, or an experience, such as being a child or living in poverty.
Such partnerships are often hybrid strategies that may include aspects of social planning, community organizing, community development, policy advocacy, and acting as a catalyst for community change. As such, they may have both top-down i.e. social planning led by experts and bottom-up i.e. grassroots community organizing features. The distinguishing feature of collaborative partnerships for community health is broad community engagement in creating and sustaining conditions that promote and maintain behaviors associated with widespread health and well being.As an ecological approach, collaborative partnerships for community health share a similar function. They aim to improve population level health outcomes by creating important and sustainable environmental changes in the different community sectors in which health related behaviors occur. For example, a coalition to increase health care access for the poor may attempt to transform employer health care policies, reduce pharmacy fees, and increase access to services through neighborhood clinics and religious organizations. A partnership goal of population level improvement.e.g. improvement for all people in a county or urban neighborhood differs from more modest preventive interventions or programs that target change in only limited segments of a community. The emphasis on multisectoral collaboration, environmental change, and population level improvement often involves a greater number and type of intervention components than other community based interventions such as policy advocacy or mass media campaigns.