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Cross-Sector Innovation Initiative: Environmental Scan Full Report July 2019
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Cross-Sector Innovation Initiative: Environmental Scan Full Report

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The Cross-sector Innovation Initiative (CSII) environmental scan compiles key findings from a literature review, secondary data analysis, and key informant interviews on cross-sector collaboration between the public health, health care, and social services sectors.

Findings highlight the roles that different sectors can play in collaboration, a continuum of collaboration, and factors that facilitate or impede cross-sector collaboration. Facilitating and impeding factors are organized into three categories: community/environmental factors, organization factors, and collaboration factors.

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