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Cross-sector Alignment Glossary
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Cross-Sector Alignment Glossary

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This cross-sector alignment glossary, developed by Aligning Systems for Health, offers a starting point for understanding alignment terminology.

Defined terms include accountability; accountable care community; accountable care organization; accountable communities for health; accountable health communities; aligned systems; co-creation; coordinated care; collective impact; community-based organization; community development sector; community engagement; comprehensive system capital; cross-sector alignment; data; external factors affecting urgency; factors affecting success of aligning; financing; governance; health care sector; health system transformation; human services; individual, organizational, and system-level enablers; integration; integrator; internal factors affecting capacity; outcomes; population health; public health 3.0; public health sector; purpose; social determinants of health; social services sector; sustainable progress; triple aim; and whole-person care.

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Using Measurement to Inform an Equitable, Aligned COVID-19 Recovery

This article discusses how policymakers and leaders can use measurement to help systems work towards more equitable health outcomes by disaggregating data to identify inequities; partnering with communities to identify actionable metrics; and balancing decision-making among stakeholders.

Case Study

Aligning in Action: Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation

This case study examines how the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation's history of building one of the first Connected Communities of Care in the nation, rooted in its proprietary information exchange platform, gave it — as an intermediary or backbone organization — the necessary experience of aligning diverse stakeholders to then serve as a bridge organization for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Accountable Health Communities Model in Dallas.

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Finding Innovation and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sector Alignment and the Response to COVID-19

This brief highlights how successfully addressing the complex challenges that affect community health — such as COVID-19 and its economic impacts — requires health care, public health, and social services to work together in new ways.