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Connecting the Systems that Drive Health in Your Community: Medical, Social and Public Health
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Connecting the Systems that Drive Health in Your Community: Medical, Social, and Public Health

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This presentation highlights what we know and still need to learn about building strong building strong multi-sector community networks, based on research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Systems for Action program.

At the 9th Annual Trover Health Symposium, Dr. Glen Mays presented ways to build delivery and financing systems that improve population health, such as:

  • Designed to achieve large-scale health improvement: in neighborhoods, communities, and regions
  • Improve means and reduce variances (health equity)
  • Target fundamental and multiple determinants of health
  • Mobilize the collective actions of multiple sectors and stakeholders in government and private sector for infrastructure, information, and incentives
Brief

Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.

Publication

“More Than Just Giving Them a Piece of Paper”: Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations

This publication characterizes referrals to community-based organizations by primary care practices, which are increasingly being used by healthcare organizations to invest in social care.

Publication

Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022

This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs