Forging Successful Academic–Community Partnerships With Community Health Centers

Forging community partnerships to improve health care: the experience of four Medicaid managed care organizations.

Some managed care organizations (MCOs) serving Medicaid beneficiaries are actively engaging in community partnerships to meet the needs of vulnerable members and nonmembers. We found that the history, leadership, and other internal factors of four such MCOs primarily drive that focus. However, external factors such as state Medicaid policies and competition or collaboration among MCOs also play...

Precincts, people and places: forging new partnerships in health innovation.

This short report summarises the proceedings of the international symposium "Precincts, people and places - forging new partnerships", held in Brisbane on 24 and 25 July 2009.

Addressing hepatitis B: community health centers, partnerships and the Affordable Care Act.

Forging partnerships with parents while delivering adolescent confidential health services: a clinical paradox.

Confidentiality between adolescents and clinicians has long been established to ensure that adolescents receive necessary health information and services. A confidential clinical encounter increases adolescents’ willingness to seek health care, improves access to care, enhances disclosure of health risk behaviors, and increases the likelihood they return for care [1–3]. Adolescents, especially ...

Transforming Public Health Through Community Partnerships

How these seven areas of responsibility are implemented by health educators to achieve lasting behavior change or sustained community health improvement varies tremendously according to individual, family, and community needs. However, in recent years, it has become increasingly clear that the seven areas of health educator responsibilities are often effectively achieved through collaborative, ...