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Linking Health and Housing Data to Create a Sustainable Cross-Sector Partnership
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Linking Health and Housing Data to Create a Sustainable Cross-Sector Partnership

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This article outlines Washington State’s King County Housing Authority and Seattle Housing Authority collaboration with Public Health–Seattle & King County (PHSKC) to form the Housing and Health partnership, which aims to build system alignment between public health and housing.

It does so through a sustainable, integrated data system that supports exploration of existing health needs of public housing residents via an accessible, interactive platform; longitudinal analyses of interventions aimed at improving the health and well-being of public housing authority (PHA) residents; and shared governance and development of goals common to PHAs and PHSKC.

These findings are part of a collection of 15 new studies released on July 14, 2020 in a special issue of the American Journal of Public Health, all focused on the topic of aligning health and social systems to improve population health.

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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.

Brief

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.