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The past five years has seen a substantial increase in initiatives and activities that foster community-level multisector collaboration to advance population health. The rise in awareness of how social determinants drive health outcomes, advanced by the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, the All-In, the Practical Playbook, 100 Million Healthier Lives, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health initiative, and many others, have moved communities to invest in multisector collaboration to address social needs and the social determinants of health.
While there seems to be general agreement that multisector collaboration is needed to improve population health and address social determinants, the availability of common multisector measurement and data infrastructure that meet the needs of diverse sectors to support such collaboration remains in its infancy.[1] A study of 237 multisector partnerships found that more than half of them engaged 10 or more sectors, with public health and health care organizations most frequently in the lead role.[2] These partnerships have struggled in part because they lack common measures across sectors that can be easily used to drive improvement at the local (subcounty) level. Numerous studies point to the need for more timely data at smaller geographic levels to more effectively focus programs and resources.[3][4][5][6] The absence of a mechanism for multisector collaboration at both the national and the community level to identify common measures and promote learning across sectors, as well as the growing awareness that it is not possible to address social needs or social determinants without such collaboration, contributed to the demand for publicly available measures that support community collaborations to assess population health, address social determinants, and improve well-being and health equity.
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