The Role and Potential of Communities in Population Health Improvement Workshop Summary (2015) / Chapter Skim
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5 How Institutions Work with Communities
5 How Institutions Work with Communities
Pages 41-52
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Renee Canady, the chief executive officer of the Michigan Public Health Institute, discussed achieving collective impact through collaboration from her perspective as a former county health officer. Individual participants then discussed the importance of engaging the private sector as partners, the importance of collecting data with utility in mind, and, again, how to scale community organizing efforts.
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In another multisector partnership, the KU Work Group worked with the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services and with community coalitions in 14 Kansas counties to address underage drinking using the Kansas Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant. Overall, 1 For more information see https://communityhealth.ku.edu (accessed August 15, 2014)
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Another example is the Latino Health for All Coalition, which works to address disparities in cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Kansas City by providing access to healthier foods, safe activities, and health care. The collaborative partnership supported 41 program, policy, and practice changes over the initial 3-year program period.3 Watson-Thompson said that each of these successful efforts adhered to three key principles for supporting population-level improvement: • Focus on the outcome.
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. vector editable image Watson-Thompson highlighted several core principles, assumptions, and values that guide the KU Work Group on community and health development.
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COLLABORATION AND COLLECTIVE IMPACT Canady shared her perspectives on collaboration and collective impact based on her prior experiences as health officer for the Ingham County, Michigan Health Department. Collective impact is "long-term
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In other words, violence and safety were the primary concerns of the community, and public health officials needed to shift their focus to address that. As defined by the Leadership Development National Excellence Collaborative,4 collaborative leadership in public health means that all the people affected by the decision are a part of the process, and the more that power is shared, the more power all of us working together have to use, Canady said.
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The Building Bridges Initiative is focused on mobilizing community partnerships to identify and solve health problems and on informing, educating, and empowering people about health issues. The Power to Thrive movement is building a shared culture for change and action, bringing together local health departments, the state department of health, and community organizing entities to consider public health issues in a local context.
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SOURCE: Provided by Power of We Consortium, 2014. Figure 5-2 R02699 uneditable bitmapped image Facilitated Dialogue as a Vehicle for Change Ingham County used facilitated dialogue as a vehicle for change.
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Engaging the Private Sector A participant stressed the importance of engaging private sector community partners in a meaningful way. Canady concurred and said that inviting small business owners and representatives to the table is important for discussions about fostering personal responsibility (e.g., what can be done structurally in stores to make sure that the healthy choice is the easy choice, rather than one that requires additional effort or resources)
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. P hyllis Meadows remarked that community members often feel they can tell the researchers the answers to the questions they are researching, but the researchers end up simply describing the community's problems over and over, in different ways, or gathering data that does not seem useful to the community and does not help them advance.
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Organizing for Better Health Care A question was raised about the potential role of community organizing in addressing the waste in health care in order to free up resources for population health and health equity. A participant suggested that patients and people in the communities need to push for quality care.
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