Current Reading: The Power of Collaboration

The Committee on Medicine and Public Health created a monograph which elucidates and presents collaborative strategies and efforts/activities of medical communities which focus on particular problems/solutions. The outcomes of the specific collaborative initiatives bring light to a larger collaborative vision to improve healthcare.


According to the monograph, the Committee on Medicine and Public Health created a collaborative group that encompassed leaders of 20 major professional,
educational, and governmental organizations in medicine and public health, it developed an agenda of collaboration encompassing seven basic components:
  1. Egage the community
  2. Change the education process
  3. Develop joint research activities
  4. Formulate a shared view of health and illness
  5. Work together in health care provision
  6. Craft health care assessment measures
  7. Create national and local networks to transform Initiative ideas into action.
The goal of the monograph was to study how to advance medicine to meet future economic, social, practical, radical and political changes through a practical framework of collaboration. By practical, the goal was to focus...
not on what a collaborative relationship between medicine and public health might be or should be in an ideal world, but rather on what it can be today, and on how the experiences of those actively engaged in collaborative efforts can help other health professionals and institutions deal with the challenges they face in a very turbulent environment.
In short, after reading most of the monograph, I'm more convinced that ever of the power of collaboration in medicine. Enjoy...

http://www.cacsh.org/pdf/MPH.pdf

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