The governance and management of effective community health partnerships: a typology for research, policy, and practice.
Community health partnerships (CHPs) are voluntary collaborations of diverse community organizations that have joined forces in order to pursue a shared interest in improving community health. Although these cross-sectoral collaborations represent a way to address social determinants of health and disease in society, they suffer from governance and management problems associated with interorganizational relationships in general and health care challenges specifically. A typology of effective governance and management characteristics provides a systematic, theoretically based way of addressing dimensions of governance and management and serves as a guide in constructing, maintaining, and measuring successful partnerships. It offers a multidisciplinary perspective for classifying important organizational issues, identifying barriers to successful development and sustainability, and facilitating the attainment of goals.
Mitchell
S M
SM
University of California, School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Management 94720, USA. shannonm@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Shortell
S M
SM
D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D012106:Research; D014481:United States