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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.

Case Study

Aligning in Action: Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement

This case study examines how the Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement uses a collective impact approach to implement its 28-year strategy to reduce health disparities and create place-based systems change.

Webinar

Bridging Trust and Community in Cross-Sector Alignment

What can individuals and institutions do to build trust as a foundation for creating community connections and engaging citizens? This webinar on December 17 examines why intentionally focusing on trust is critical to maintaining connections, building community, and leveraging success.

Brief

Making Aligning Work Series

This series mines the experience of catalysts, researchers, and funders who have been involved with efforts to align the three sectors—health care, public health, and social services—through quarterly interviews (fall 2019 through spring 2021).