Practical Applications of Public Health, Durham, North Carolina (Mr Napp); and Jane Conklin Consulting, Santa Cruz, California (Ms Conklin).
J Public Health Manag Pract. 2022;28(4 Suppl 4):S187-S191. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001480.
The Cross-sector Innovation Initiative (CSII) funded 10 communities for 2 years to support public health, health care, and social services sector alignment and community engagement to improve health equity and population health. The CSII is founded on the idea that working in alignment across sectors, in partnership with the community, better positions agencies and the communities they serve to address health inequities in meaningful and innovative ways. This evaluation identified the activities that sites undertook during the first year of the program to align sectors and engage the community, and factors that facilitated and hindered those efforts. The evaluation utilized secondary data from project reports and primary data from observations of peer-to-peer learning events. This evaluation found that cross-sector alignment benefits from a sustained focus on longer-term goals and the ability to build, strengthen, and maintain trust and commitment among cross-sector partners and community stakeholders and to explicitly include community voice and participation.
跨部门创新倡议（CSII）为 10 个社区提供了为期两年的资金支持，以支持公共卫生、医疗保健和社会服务部门的协调以及社区参与，从而改善公平和人口健康。CSII 的理念是，通过与社区合作，在各部门之间协调工作，可以更好地让机构及其服务的社区以有意义和创新的方式解决不平等问题。这项评估确定了各参与点在该计划的第一年中为实现部门协调和社区参与而开展的活动，以及促进和阻碍这些努力的因素。该评估利用了项目报告中的二手数据和对同行学习活动的观察中的原始数据。评估发现，跨部门协调受益于对长期目标的持续关注，以及建立、加强和维护跨部门合作伙伴和社区利益相关者之间的信任和承诺的能力，并明确纳入社区的声音和参与。
