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The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
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Combating Opioid Abuse Through a Unified State and Local Response
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Combating Opioid Abuse Through a Unified State and Local Response: The Ohio Governor’s Cabinet Opiate Action

Center for Health Care Strategies, Better Health Beyond Health Care
05.2018
This case study looks at Ohio’s comprehensive, cross-agency efforts to address opioid abuse and prevent overdose deaths through statewide initiatives that include the promotion of responsible opioid use and expanding access to treatment, among other initiatives.
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Health Care
Mental Health
Public Health
Social Needs
Oregon Cross-Agency Collaboration: Making Healthy Connections Through Transportation and Education
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Oregon Cross-Agency Collaboration: Making Healthy Connections Through Transportation and Education

Center for Health Care Strategies, Better Health Beyond Health Care
05.2018
This case study explores a collaboration between the Oregon Health Authority, Department of Transportation, and Department of Education to advance the availability of multiple healthy and safe transportation options for residents, including school-aged children.
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Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Making a Compact to Strategically Connect Transportation and Public Health
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Making a Compact to Strategically Connect Transportation and Public Health Goals in Massachusetts

Center for Health Care Strategies, Better Health Beyond Health Care
05.2018
This case study features a partnership between Massachusetts’ transportation agency and other agencies—including public health, energy and environmental regulators, and public stakeholders—tasked with improving health outcomes through a focus on healthy transportation.
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Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Linking Housing and Health for Sustainable Cross-Disability Service Delivery: Louisiana Post-Katrina and Rita
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Linking Housing and Health for Sustainable Cross-Disability Service Delivery: Louisiana Post-Katrina and Rita

Center for Health Care Strategies, Better Health Beyond Health Care
05.2018
This case study looks at Louisiana’s Permanent Supportive Housing program, the nation’s first example of a statewide cross-disability housing program that includes sustainable funding for both housing and necessary supportive services.
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Complex Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Incorporating Health into Policymaking Across Sectors: The California Health in All Policies Initiative
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Incorporating Health into Policymaking Across Sectors: The California Health in All Policies Initiative

Center for Health Care Strategies, Better Health Beyond Health Care
05.2018
This case study explores the California Health in All Policies initiative, a cross-agency collaboration designed to improve the health of Californians by addressing health, equity, and sustainability in policymaking across sectors.
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Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Building Trust for Cross-Sector Data Collaboration
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Building Trust for Cross-Sector Data Collaboration

National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs
05.2018
This report explores ways to create and strengthen data partnerships, including identifying shared needs, finding internal champions, building on existing partnerships, understanding that building collaborative relationships takes time, tailoring communication for the appropriate audience, and adapting and implementing existing technology to meet organizations’ needs.
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Alignment 101
Complex Care
Social Needs
Promoting Better Health Beyond Health Care
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Promoting Better Health Beyond Health Care: State-Level Multi-Sector Actions for Addressing the Social, Economic, and Environmental Factors that Impact Health

Center for Health Care Strategies
05.2018
This report explores state-level multi-sector actions for addressing the social, economic, and environmental factors that impact health.
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Alignment 101
Aligning Clinical & Public Health Systems: Networks, Incentives & Information
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Aligning Clinical and Public Health Systems for Population Health: Networks, Governance, and Incentives

Systems for Action
03.29.2018
This presentation offers insight on strategies that align delivery and financing systems for medical care, public health, and social services in ways that create better population health outcomes.
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Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Fostering Collaboration to Support a Culture of Health: Update from Five Communities
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Fostering Collaboration to Support a Culture of Health: Update from Five Communities

AcademyHealth and the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement
03.26.2018
This report details activities in key areas that influence the conditions and collaborations necessary to support non-clinical community-wide population health services, including cross-sector collaboration; metrics, data, and evidence; care delivery requirements and incentives; and payment and financing.
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Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Investing in Gulfport
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Investing in Gulfport: Development of an Academic–Community Partnership to Address Health Disparities

Invest Health
02.20.2018
This article describes the beginning work of the Healthy Gulfport Initiative in developing an academic–community partnership to address barriers to health and wellness among vulnerable populations in Gulfport, Mississippi, and the broader Gulf Coast region.
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Health Care
Social Needs