Community-based breast health partnerships.

Breast Health Partnerships are a unique community-based method for delivering comprehensive breast cancer screening services. They are problem-solving groups that work to bring the resources of individual partners "to the table" to overcome obstacles to the recruitment of underserved women and the delivery of comprehensive breast cancer screening services. Partners include representatives from government agencies as well as the voluntary and private sectors. Developing this "community of solution" increases institutionalization of key components of a comprehensive screening program. Simultaneously, it increases fiscal accountability by ensuring local resources are maximized before public dollars are spent.