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6 Enhancing a Culture of Collaboration to Build a Culture of Health
6 Enhancing a Culture of Collaboration to Build a Culture of Health
Pages 63-68
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The conversation that followed highlighted informal elements of culture that can either facilitate or inhibit collaboration to improve population health. ACHIEVING MORE TOGETHER THAN APART Michener was prompted by Mattessich to share a very successful example of collaboration between health care and public health and why 63
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. Michener highlighted several foundations that are pulling together public health, primary care, and community organizations to align around shared issues (e.g., the Advisory Board Company, the Colorado Health Foundation, the de Beaumont Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
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Speaking the Language of Collaboration Michener concurred with the importance of connecting within one's own organization and highlighted the role of language in inviting others to participate. In many cases, for example, primary care and public health use the same words but with different meanings.
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If we can be willing to let go, there is a sense of relief and a sense of joy and motivation in being part of something larger than oneself. A challenge to collaboration is what Michener described as a sense of marginalization in primary care and public health, a feeling of always being at the bottom, which makes some suspicious about collaboration.
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Phyllis Meadows of The Kresge Foundation offered her opinion as a public health practitioner and as a philanthropist, saying that she could not imagine any problem that has been addressed effectively without some level of collaboration. She agreed, however, that there is a level of readiness and a certain amount of skill and competency that must be in place to be effective in a collaboration.
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