The Structure of Policy Networks for Injury and Violence Prevention in 15 US Cities

Harris, Jenine K.; Jonson‐Reid, Melissa; Carothers, Bobbi J.; Fowler, Patrick J.

doi:10.1177/0033354917705367

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“…Creating genuine partnerships between public health and criminal justice systems can result in mobilizing more resources for the problem ( Moore, 1995 ; Enang et al , 2019 ), cost savings ( Florence et al , 2014 ), and lead to addressing root cause policy issues essential to reducing violence and increasing health and well-being ( Woodall et al , 2014 ). It may be that not all problems that have public health and criminal justice overlaps can be addressed through such partnering [see ( Collier, 2017 )] but we need to know more about their collective effectiveness on outcomes for individuals, groups and communities ( Morrissey et al , 2009 ; Harris et al , 2017 ). Understanding how these partnerships can operate more effectively can lead to collective improvements ( Daley, 2008 ).…”

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“…Violence is both an acute and enduring problem in many areas of the globe. While there is recognition of the importance of these partnerships, there is a lack of information about how they best operate ( Harris et al , 2017 ). The limited literature on public health–criminal justice partnerships provide insights to the ways in which diverse entities can collaborate and the challenges with doing so.…”

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“…Scholarship published on the intersection of public health and criminal justice often provides examples of successful partnership projects, with little articulation of the challenges faced by partnerships or the factors that led to successful partnering ( Morrissey et al , 2009 ; Harris et al , 2017 ). There is a need to understand more about how public health–criminal justice partnerships work best to achieve goals.…”

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Intersectoral violence prevention: the potential of public health–criminal justice partnerships

Gebo

2022

Health Promotion International

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Building successful intersectoral partnerships to address health is critical to reaching health promotion goals. With the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the increase in violence during the pandemic and the heightened demand for racial justice resulting from police killings of people of color, particularly young, black males, intersectoral public health–criminal justice partnerships must be more thoroughly examined. Violence prevention is both a public health and criminal justice issue, with public health systems emphasizing primary prevention and criminal justice systems addressing violence prevention at secondary and tertiary levels. Public health–criminal justice collaborations can provide an opportunity to seize upon unrealized violence reduction goals across the spectrum of prevention. At the same time, issues remain that are at odds across field boundaries as exemplified through community violence prevention. While there have been successful examples of such collaborations, past public health–criminal justice partnerships also demonstrate the challenges of working together. These challenges have yet to be systematically described and rooted in the larger literature on partnerships. In this paper, collaborative challenges are enumerated and evidence-informed strategies to overcome those barriers to achieve violence reduction goals are identified as a way to ground further intersectoral partnership work between public health and criminal justice.

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Gebo

2022

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“…In the past, various intra- and interorganizational public health networks were examined using social network analysis to visualize structural characteristics and cooperation processes, such as active living [ 54 – 56 ], cancer support [ 57 , 58 ], children’s health initiatives [ 59 , 60 ], community care [ 61 – 63 ], elderly care [ 64 – 66 ], HIV/AIDS service [ 67 ], injury prevention and control [ 68 ], mental health services [ 69 – 72 ], physical activity promotion [ 73 – 75 ], prevention of diabetes [ 76 ], tobacco control [ 77 – 80 ], and women’s health [ 81 , 82 ]. These public health networks differ in many ways from the network at hand, because they address the specific health needs and problems of other populations, have a different health-related focus and mission, geographic coverage, types of stakeholders, ways in which network members cooperate, availability and distribution of resources and funding, and political, cultural, and social context.…”

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Analyzing mechanisms of interdisciplinary cooperation in promoting students’ health at university

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Hildebrand

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BMC Public Health

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Background Interdisciplinary cooperation among university actors and resulting intersectoral synergies are considered cornerstones in the process of incorporating health promotion practices in everyday university life in order to break down barriers and provide better access to health promotion services. To date, no network of a health-promoting university has been examined regarding the processes underlying tie formation, network emergence, and maintenance. Objectives and methods The goals of this study are to obtain insight into the mechanisms of cooperation between university actors in a health-promoting network and to identify the structural and attributive factors associated with establishing cooperation between actors in the observed network in order to better understand how to build and develop successful networks in the future. For this purpose, a social network analysis was carried out and exponential random graph models were estimated to test corresponding hypotheses. Results The network at hand consists of 33 actors (e.g. University Sports Center, General Student Committee) and shows a flat, non-hierarchical structure. Data reveal that attributed competence predicts cooperation (0.32; p < 0.05). Significant homophily effects among student actors (1.31; p < 0.05) and among university actors (0.59; p < 0.05) were found. All structural predictors examined were significant (0.22–5.40; p < 0.05) and are therefore essential in determining the likelihood of cooperation between actors involved in the network. Conclusion The results of this study provide for a better understanding of the mechanisms of cooperation and can be used to further develop the network at hand (e.g. selection of key actors for information dissemination or integration of peripheral actors). In addition, the findings offer starting points for sustained network development at other universities (e.g. significance of network governance form or goal consensus). Knowing the factors that influence the network structure, here the conditions of cooperation, results in opportunities to encourage empowerment among actors. However, the analysis of the network undertaken does not directly bear on the success of the network.

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2023

Translational Surgery

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The Structure of Policy Networks for Injury and Violence Prevention in 15 US Cities

Abstract: Several strategies could strengthen local IVP policy networks, including (1) developing connections with partners from sectors that are not well integrated into the networks and (2) encouraging indirect or less formal connections with important but missing partners and partner types.

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Intersectoral violence prevention: the potential of public health–criminal justice partnerships

Intersectoral violence prevention: the potential of public health–criminal justice partnerships

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