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The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
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Making Aligning Work: Reflections on 18 Months of Aligning Across Sectors
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Making Aligning Work: Reflections on 18 Months of Aligning Across Sectors

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
04.01.2021
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures reflections on the progress made in the field around aligning sectors, the implications of the triple crisis for aligning efforts, and considerations for the future of aligning across sectors.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
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Social Needs
Fostering Healthy Neighborhoods
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Fostering Healthy Neighborhoods: Alignment Across the Community Development, Financial Well-Being, and Health Sectors

Build Healthy Places Network, Prosperity Now, and Financial Health Network
03.11.2020
This report presents examples of existing alignment across sectors, opportunities and challenges for increased collaboration, and recommendations to foster cross-sector alignment across the community development, public health, health care, and financial well-being sectors.
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Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Framework for Aligning Sectors With Glossary
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Framework for Aligning Sectors With Glossary

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
03.15.2021
This framework visually depicts how aligned systems require that sectors think and work together in fundamentally new ways to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities they serve in ways that are built to last.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Unlocking the Value of Data Sharing: A Look Across Five Sectors
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Unlocking the Value of Data Sharing: A Look Across Five Sectors

Data Across Sectors for Health
09.04.2018
This report outlines the process of discovering the value of multi-sector data sharing initiatives and a basic method for reaching out to those in a community who may share an interest in collaborating and sharing data.
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Equity, Health Equity, and Racial Equity in the Framework for Aligning Sectors
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Equity, Health Equity, and Racial Equity in the Framework for Aligning Sectors

Aligning Systems for Health
02.22.2021
This brief identifies leading definitions of equity, health equity, and racial equity, and explores their interrelationships.
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Developing the Framework for Aligning Sectors
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Developing the Framework for Aligning Sectors

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
2021
This blog outlines the key findings from Aligning Systems' for Health's 2020 review of cross-sector alignment as well as noteworthy changes to the program's design.
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Alignment 101
Healthcare: Unlocking the Value of Data Sharing Series
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Health Care: Unlocking the Value of Data Sharing

Data Across Sectors for Health
02.19.2019
This report provides guidance for those in non-health care sectors (e.g. housing, social services, community-based organizations) on effectively engaging and advancing conversations with health care stakeholders about sharing data.
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Health Care
Public Health
Housing and Homelessness: Unlocking the Value of Data Sharing
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Housing and Homelessness: Unlocking the Value of Data Sharing

Data Across Sectors for Health
09.04.2018
This report provides guidance for those in non-health care sectors (e.g. housing, social services, community-based organizations) on effectively engaging and advancing conversations with health care stakeholders about sharing data.
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Aligning Health Care and Social Services: Recommendations for Effective Engagement
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Aligning Health Care and Social Services: Recommendations for Effective Engagement

Northeastern University
08.2019
This brief outlines key findings and recommendations for establishing a more productive and rewarding relationship between the health care and social services sectors.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Social Needs
Incorporating Health into Policymaking Across Sectors: The California Health in All Policies Initiative
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Incorporating Health into Policymaking Across Sectors: The California Health in All Policies Initiative

Center for Health Care Strategies, Better Health Beyond Health Care
05.2018
This case study explores the California Health in All Policies initiative, a cross-agency collaboration designed to improve the health of Californians by addressing health, equity, and sustainability in policymaking across sectors.
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Health Care
Public Health
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