Population Health in Challenging Times: Insights from Key Domains Proceedings of a Workshop (2023) / Chapter Skim
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" Key points from the panelists are provided in Box 3-1. Gary Gunderson, vice president for faith–health at Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest University, remarked that the social sector is often noticed for the minor role it plays as a delivery mechanism for responding to social needs and social risks around the health care sector.
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Louis echoed the commitment to equity but added that community organizations themselves are assessing their own institutional attention to furthering equity and justice. He also acknowledged the extraordinary level of collaboration in the sector.
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What the nation also needs, she added, are opportunities for the health care and social sectors to testify to the same congressional panel advocating for one another -- there is a need to combine forces to advocate for "the system that we want to see that produces population health for our neighbors." Gunderson agreed that what is needed are new and more transparent business models (including for health systems, regarding the use of their resources) that allow the social sector to play the roles that it is so well suited to, given its understanding of the social dynamics of people's lives.
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Faith groups and entities are a great generative factor in communities, Gunderson reflected, but quoted Rosalyn Carter that the first word of faith communities in the public sector should be an apology for their history of stigmatizing behaviors and for being tribal. There is a great need for crossing boundaries and for working across sectors, such as for clergy to get to know and work with their local public health directors, Gunderson said.
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Purnell underscored the crucial value of "having robust, reliable conduits to the experience of people in the community." Purnell said that this requires a different frame of reference and an openness to listening with intention, as well as building an infrastructure for listening, including a mechanism for compensating community members for their role in informing the work of an organization. For example, Purnell shared, meetings about gun violence prevention should have someone in the room "who hears gunshots every night, who has had family members and friends shot and killed." Having individuals with lived experience at the decision-making table could accelerate and improve the planning, implementation, and ultimately the outcomes of interventions.
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Dreyfus answered Little by underscoring the importance of moving from program thinking to systems change thinking. He reflected on a sense of frustration that a considerable segment of philanthropy remains focused on plans and services instead of affecting systemic change.
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Dreyfus said that it is time to stop talking about health care reform as technical change (e.g., care coordination) and turn to facilitating adaptive change and transforming human services from the inside out to improve population health.
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