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To do so, the roundtable hosted a workshop in Oakland, California, on December 8, 2016, to explore multisector health partnerships that engage residents, reduce health disparities, and improve health and wellbeing. Sanne agnan, co-chair of the roundtable, opened the workshop by M emphasizing that understanding how local stakeholders from all sectors at the community level build partnerships to improve health is an issue that transcends politics.
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communities, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health prize communities might serve as good examples of what communities can accomplish in effective multisector community health partnerships. There are many other communities involved in each of these initiatives, and, in part, the individual speakers and communities featured were based on availability and also a desire to feature differentsized communities that reflect urban, rural, and suburban communities from different
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The workshop also engaged the participants in a structured discussion to develop strategies for sharing power and engaging with different partners in developing and sustaining multisector collaborative relationships. To set the context for the day's discussions, Flores reviewed some of the key terms used in talking about multisector community partnerships (see Box 1-2)
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• People power -- turns the pyramid upside down, puts people at the top of the power structure, and allows power to flow to the power elites from the will of the people. • Structural racism -- a system for allocating social privilege; historically in the United States, white males and wealth are the default settings for power.
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It is what makes people feel healthy, and it goes beyond biomedical health and encompasses concepts such as safety, financial security, and relationships. Community agency is collective control, connections, capacities, and opportunities, including partnerships with shared decision-making and mutual accountability.
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Chapter 4 highlights some of the community engagement concepts and strategies used by the communities that won the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize. Chapter 5 summarizes the small-group discussions that were held during the workshop with the aim of brainstorming collectively about strategies for sharing power and engaging with different partners in developing and sustaining multisector collaborative relationships, and Chapter 6 provides the roundtable members' and workshops participants' reflections on the day's discussions.
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. Improving Health Through Equitable Transformative Community Change • Achieving healthier communities requires unprecedented collaboration, the courage to ask questions about what is happening, and the courage to fail forward, learn, and understand that in coming together communities might create solutions and intentionally transform the systems that are creating in equity (Stout)
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In addition, the planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop. The Proceedings of a Workshop was been prepared by workshop rapporteurs Darla Thompson and Joe Alper as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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a This list is the rapporteurs' summary of the main points made by individual speakers, and the comments have not been endorsed or verified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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