New Book Provides a Roadmap for Improving Population Health

WASHINGTON, May 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Creating cross-sector partnerships that collaborate, innovate, and affect policy for improved population health is the work of the 21^st century and the focus of The Practical Playbook II: Building Multisector Partnerships That Work.

Working in multisector partnerships is new, complex, often underfunded, and anything but quick. Improving health through partnerships requires letting go of the traditional siloed mentality and working together to develop programs that are successful and sustainable. What is now needed – and what The Practical Playbook II provides – is a compilation of tools and methods that can be adapted and shaped to build on partners' strengths and respond to the unique needs of each community.

The Practical Playbook II was authored by more than 100 of the leading voices in public health, primary care, health systems, housing, transportation, businesses, and the faith community, and answers common and advanced questions around multisector partnerships, including:

• Identifying sectors and actors that can help to collaborate to improve health.
• Best practices for initial engagement.
• Specifics related to collaborations with government, business, faith communities, and other types of partners.
• The role of data in establishing and running a partnership.
• Scaling up to maximize impact and remain sustainable.
• The role of financing.
• Implications for policy.

Since the first Practical Playbook was published in 2016, multisector collaborations that improve the health of communities have continued to expand, and there are currently more than 600 partnerships across the country. With this growth came the realization that a completely new book was needed. This new edition builds on the experiences of the broadening array of sites and sectors, and provides a concise set of tools, methods, and examples that support multisector partnerships to improve population health.

"This book accomplishes something that isn't easy: it offers didactic instruction on a topic that is not talked about in such terms anywhere else. If cross-sector partnerships are the key to big victories in population health, then this is the instruction manual," says Michelle A. Williams, Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Beyond providing tools and lessons, this book is intended as an invitation for all sectors to join the movement for health. It is a call for action, for joining partnerships, for selecting among the wide range of tools and methods shared, and putting them into action to make a difference in the health of communities.

The Practical Playbook II is available for purchase from Oxford University Press at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-practical-playbook-ii-9780190936013?cc=us&lang=en&.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

J. Lloyd Michener is Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Duke University School of Medicine and the Principal Investigator of The Practical Playbook.

Brian C. Castrucci is President and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation.

Don W. Bradley is Consulting Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Duke University School of Medicine and Executive Director of The Practical Playbook.

Edward L. Hunter is a Senior Scholar at AcademyHealth and a public health consultant.

Craig W. Thomas is Director of the Division of Population Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Catherine Patterson is Managing Director for Urban Health and Policy at the de Beaumont Foundation.

Elizabeth Corcoran is Special Assistant to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team at the de Beaumont Foundation.

(Oxford University Press | Paperback Original | May 2019 | 542 Pages |$27.95| ISBN: 9780190936013)

Find The Practical Playbook online at www.practicalplaybook.org 

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