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

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
Webinar

Social Bonds as a Pooled Financing Mechanism to Address Social Drivers of Health Equity

This study investigates whether a novel type of social bond can pool resources across multiple competing health plans and create stable, long-term financing for interventions that address social determinants of health.

Webinar

Closing Gaps in Health and Social Services for Low-Income Pregnant Women

This webinar explores the effectiveness of the Los Angeles Maternity Assessment Management Access and Service initiative.

Publication

Development and Validation of a Measure to Assess Readiness to Advance Health and Equity: The Assessment for Advancing Community Transformation

This publication reports on the development and validation of the Assessment for Advancing Community Transformation - a tool that allows groups to directly collect and use data about their multi-sector collaborative by creating a shared point of reference for where partners are at in their stage of development across multiple factors.