Background: Patient, public, consumer, and community (P2C2) engagement in organization-
, community-, and systemlevel healthcare decision-making is increasing globally, but its …

Inter-organizational relations (IOR), the study of Strategic Alliances, Joint Ventures,
Partnerships, Networks and other forms of relationship between organizations, is a field of …

Multisectoral action is key to addressing many pressing global health challenges and critical
for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, but to-date, understanding about how …

This article suggests that network collaborations are likely to vary in important ways
depending on the nature of the issue/challenge being addressed and the range of …

This article reviews the relationships between institutionalized actors in local and regional
development partnerships. Its main focus is on partnerships in the UK, Europe, and the USA …

In recent years collaborative working has moved from being an optional extra of public
service practice to being a core competency for individuals and teams. Has this led to better …

Community-based health promotion is poorly theorised and lacks an agreed evidence-base.
This paper examines characteristics of community-based health promotion and the …

Governments around the world face ongoing pressure to invest in physical infrastructure as
they strive to encourage economic growth and improve competitiveness as well as rising to …

Recent years have witnessed broad public health transformations. Central to these changes
is that partnership work is increasingly mandated and employed as a vehicle for health …

The interface between the child protection and domestic violence sectors is often
problematic, in that the two sectors operate relatively independently, with little integration …