Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Webinar
Building Trust for Cross-Sector Data Collaboration
This webinar features perspectives on the importance of building trust when embarking on data-sharing partnerships to help communities address the social determinants that negatively impact the health of people with complex health and social needs.
Data
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Complex Care
Social Needs
Publication
Understanding Multi-Sector Partnerships for Health: The Basics
This blog examines the differences and similarities across multi-stakeholder partnerships, including how such partnerships are playing an increasingly important role in reimagining and transforming health in their communities.
Financing
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Report
Progress Along the Pathway for Transforming Regional Health: A Pulse Check on Multi-Sector Partnerships
This pulse check report explores developmental trends that partnerships may experience as they evolve, including potential momentum builders and pitfalls that could enable or impede progress. Findings point to similarities and differences among partnerships regarding their geographic foci, memberships, priorities, sources of authority, operational infrastructures, financing, and shorter- vs. longer-term outlooks.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Webinar
Transforming Public Health Through Collaboration with Health Care
This webinar highlights the importance of public health collaborating with health care and provides information about two national initiatives aimed at improving population health through reforming the delivery of health care services and exchanging information between sectors.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
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
Case Study
Linking Housing and Health Data to Improve Residents’ Well-Being
This brief examines how Public Health – Seattle & King County partners with local housing authorities to link housing data with Medicaid claims records.
Data
Medicaid
Social Needs
Report
Building a National Culture of Health: Background, Action Framework, Measures, and Next Steps
This report provides background on the development of the Culture of Health action framework that identifies how the nation will work toward achieving the goal of enabling everyone in our diverse society to lead healthier lives, now and for generations to come.
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Webinar
Integrating Delivery and Financing Systems Across Sectors to Build a Culture of Health
This presentation features new studies to test multi-sector strategies for integrating delivery and financing systems to improve population health.
Financing
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Webinar
Understanding the Value of Multi-Sector Partnerships to Improve Population Health
This presentation reviews recent research concerning multi-sectoral partnerships aimed at improving health status on a population-wide basis, with a particular focus on implementation strategies and on health and economic impact.
Financing
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Report
Pathways to System Change: The Design of Multisite, Cross-Sector Initiatives
This report examines efforts by some of the nation’s leading foundations and community development practitioners, providing a guide for funders as they consider launching similar initiatives as well as helpful lessons for others engaged in cross-sector work.
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101