Module Components

• Overview
• Assignments

Topics

• Priorities and Partnerships
• National Prevention Strategy
• Integrating Primary Care and Public Health
• Transnational Trends
• Global Strategies and Priorities

NRSG 780 - Health Promotion and Population Health

Module 13: Critical Issues in Population Health

Integrating Primary Care and Public Health

Collaboration and Partnerships

The National Prevention Strategy is grounded in a collective approach to addressing health priorities. It shifts from the conventional model of considering clinical medicine and public health as two separate entities to developing a stronger model that includes an intersection between clinical practice and public heath emphasizing partnerships and collaborations to enhance the health of patients and the public.

The movement toward collaboration and partnerships is taking hold on both the national and international levels. It is being led by health professionals and students across the world and will become one of the prevailing forces in health care in the 21st century. A landmark report on the power of collaboration and the increasing dependence of the clinical and the public health sectors in addressing health problems was issued by the New York Academy of Medicine in 1997.

Click here to review a book review on Medicine & Public Health: The Power of Collaboration.

Watch this video on Primary Care and Public Health to see examples of the powerful results of collaboration.

IOM Reports on a Healthier Future

Interprofessional practice and enhancing the public health infrastructure is the dictate of recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports on investing in a healthier future.

Institute of Medicine. (2012). For the Public's Health: Investing in a Healthier Future. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Institute of Medicine. (2012). Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Institute of Medicine. (2012). An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Value of Community-Based Prevention. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

CDC and deBeaumont Foundation(2015) The Practical Playbook Public Health and Primary Care Together https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-practical-playbook-9780190222147?cc=us&lang=en&

CDC and deBeaumont Foundation (2019) The Practical Playbook II Building Multisectoral Partnerhips that Work https://academic.oup.com/book/36531