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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.

Webinar

Theory of Change Charette

This webinar features an overview of RWJF's Cross-Sector Alignment Theory of Change and recaps stakeholder input into how the Theory of Change can better support the work of those implementing cross-sector alignment.

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Cross-Sector Alignment and the Response to COVID-19

This brief examines factors supporting cross-sector alignment; presents findings relevant to the response to the COVID crisis; and presents challenges and response opportunities related to several key elements of the Cross-Sector Alignment Theory of Change: sectors, shared purpose, governance, finance, data, community voice, equity, capacity, and urgency.

Case Study

Aligning in Action: Healthy Homes Des Moines

This case study examines Healthy Homes Des Moines, a pilot program to provide home remediation and health education to reduce the burden of childhood asthma. The goal of the pilot was to demonstrate the value of an upstream intervention to the community and to health care providers.