Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
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.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Chronic Disease
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Needs
Webinar
Testing a New Terminology System for Health and Social Services Integration: Strategies to Achieve Alignment, Collaboration, and Synergy Across Delivery and Financing Systems
This webinar introduces a one-year developmental study that will evaluate a novel mechanism for incorporating social services into existing health billing codes, thereby allowing both social and health care services to be reimbursed within one system.
Financing
Chronic Disease
Health Care
Social Needs
Publication
After Prison, Healthy Lives Built On Access To Care And Community
This article details how a North Carolina program helps recently released inmates connect to health care, social services, and support.
Data
Shared Purpose
Chronic Disease
Mental Health
Public Health
Social Needs
Publication
Bridging for Health: Improving Community Health Through Innovations in Financing
This book illustrates how seven sites pursued pooled community wellness funds to address primary prevention of chronic conditions or an upstream driver of health.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Chronic Disease
Complex Care
Health Care
Mental Health
Public Health
Social Needs
Publication
Primary Care Where Everybody Knows Your Name
This article details how Maryland has been a leader in supporting integrated models of care delivery to address the social, environmental, and behavioral factors that have an outsize impact on health.
Shared Purpose
Chronic Disease
Complex Care
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Report
Addressing Healthcare’s Blindside in Albuquerque’s South Side
This report illustrates how the Addressing Healthcare’s Blindside in Albuquerque’s South Side collaborative addresses chronic disease and self-management via a multi-sector collaboration and an integrated chronic disease management referral system that links clinics to community resources.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Chronic Disease
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Report
Healthy Homes Des Moines Case Study
This report illustrates how the Healthy Homes Des Moines collaborative, based in Des Moines, Iowa, addresses what happens when you treat asthma with healthy housing and education.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Chronic Disease
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Report
DASH Bright Spot: Partnering with Managed Care Organizations to Share Data for Community Health Improvement
This report details how the health department and managed care organizations in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania formed a unique data sharing partnership to improve cardiovascular health outcomes.
Data
Chronic Disease
Health Care
Public Health
Publication
Preventable Death Rates Fell Where Communities Expanded Population Health Activities Through Multi-Sector Networks
This Health Affairs article highlights a study using 16 years of data from a large cohort of U.S. communities to measure the extent and nature of multi-sector contributions to population health activities and how these contributions affect community mortality rates.
Shared Purpose
Chronic Disease
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs