About the Pocket Guide

In December 1997, The New York Academy of Medicine published Medicine & Public Health: The Power of Collaboration. That monograph analyzed 414 cases of Medicine & Public Health collaboration -- most of which involve other community partners as well -- elucidating a set of common, and generally applicable, strategies for improving health and shaping the future direction of the American health system.

Recognizing that there is much that people involved or interested in collaboration can learn from each other, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation funded a Pocket Guide to Cases of Medicine & Public Health Collaboration to give readers direct access to the cases on which the monograph is based. Published in September 1998, in print and as an interactive, searchable database at this WWW site, the Pocket Guide allows users to quickly identify collaborations that share one or more characteristics of interest and network with the people involved.

Toward that end, each case is described in a brief narrative abstract, which includes a contact person or literature citation. In addition, the cases are indexed according to the multidimensional framework developed in Medicine & Public Health: The Power of Collaboration (i.e., where the collaborations take place, the types of partners involved, the ways the partners combine their resources and skills to achieve certain health and institutional objectives, and the structural arrangements that undergird the partners’ relationships).

• Click here for Part I: Publication information, Acknowledgements, Contents, Introduction

• Click here for Part II: Case Entries

• Click here for Part III: Indexes

• Click here for Part IV: Keys to Abbreviations

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