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1 Introduction
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... Paul Jarris, executive director of ASTHO, welcomed participants and explained that the ASTHO-supported Primary Care and Public Health Collaborative was organized in response to the IOM report Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health (IOM, 2012)
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... To foster discussion, Isham quoted Wikipedia, which states that collaboration is "working with others to do a task and to achieve shared goals." Furthermore, collaboration is "more than the intersection of common goals seen in cooperative ventures, but a deep collective determination to reach an identical objective."2 In considering the intersection between the public health and the health care delivery sectors, Isham challenged participants to reflect on this deep, collective determination to reach a common goal or identical objective and think about what it will take to get there, including potential barriers. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES A major activity of the roundtable is to hold workshops for its members, stakeholders, and the public to discuss important issues in the effort to improve the nation's health.
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... public health relationship) : shared goals, community engagement, aligned leadership, sustainability, and data and analysis; and • explore the "elephants in the room" when public health and health care interact: what are the key challenges and obstacles and what are some potential solutions, including strengths both sides bring to the table.
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... Chapter 3 describes the Million Hearts Initiative as an example of a successful national public health and health care collaborative. In Chapter 4, the collaboration between hospitals and public health agencies is considered, and in Chapter 5 the Boston Asthma Home Visit Collaborative is discussed as an example of a community-level multisector collaboration.


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