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Public–Private Collaboration in Health and Human Service Delivery: Evidence from Community Partnerships
Author(s) -
Bazzoli Gloria J.,
Stein Rebecca,
Alexander Jeffrey A.,
Conrad Douglas A.,
Sofaer Shoshanna,
Shortell Stephen M.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
the milbank quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1468-0009
pISSN - 0887-378X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0009.00068
Subject(s) - general partnership , public relations , business , prestige , human services , service delivery framework , community health , service provider , public health , health care , service (business) , knowledge management , marketing , political science , nursing , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , finance , computer science , law
The collaboration among public–private partnerships that applied to the Community Care Network (CCN) demonstration program of the Hospital Research and Educational Trust is examined. These partnerships link broad‐based community coalitions with health and human service providers in efforts to improve community health and local service delivery. Although they willingly collaborated in identifying community health needs, coordinating services, and reporting to the community, partnership participants showed less alacrity in joining forces to reduce redundancy and increase efficiency. Such patterns suggest that organizations might best profit from working together on activities that maintain existing power relations and that have the potential to add prestige and attract new clients. Collaboration in these areas may be essential to building a foundation of trust that leads to future cooperation in more sensitive areas.