Population health partnerships and social capital: Facilitating hospital-community partnerships

Sustaining Community-Hospital Partnerships to Improve Population Health

Health and Social Care Partnerships in Scotland

Since 1997 the development of partnership working across the public sector has been one of the key themes of UK government policy (Balloch and Taylor 2001). One area where partnership working has had a major influence has been in the field of health and social care. Whilst a diverse range of partnership mechanisms have developed between health and social care (Dowling et al 2004), equally diver...

Challenges and Opportunities for Population Health Partnerships

The Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease discuss ideas, policies, and practices that can be used to produce a healthier population in the United States and globally. The articles pose the following questions: 1) How do we best measure long-term wellness at the population level?, 2) How do we provide incentives to organizations to...

Trustful Relationships: Partnerships, Social Capital and Individual Agency

Globalisation and reflexive modernity are said to be generating new opportunities for local territorial and individual agency. As actors seek to intervene in order to ensure an equable socio-economic outcome, they increasingly employ the theory of endogenous development. However, the theory itself does not explain the nature of human and territorial agency, nor the mechanism by which such agenc...

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, ...