Building a Neighborhood Network: Interorganizational Collaboration to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect

Network Analysis in Public Health: History, Methods, and Applications

“…Given the prominence of HIV/AIDS in network research, it is no surprise that there have been multiple studies of HIV/AIDS service organizations (86,124,149). In addition, researchers have taken network approaches to understand better the public and private agencies serving the mentally ill and mental health (16,107,131), community agencies addressing child abuse (106), services for the health and social well-being of the elderly (23,69), emergency preparedness and response (72,37), tobacco control (84), cancer support (96), health policy (115), and health promotion (145).…”

“…Several of these studies found that in public health organizations, past relationships predicted partnering (96,124), as did working on a common issue (23,145) or exchanging/ receiving funding (96,106,124,148). Among health care systems providing services for specific populations-such as the elderly, mental health patients, or HIV/AIDS patientslinks between agencies consist of sending and receiving client referrals (23,86,107,145,148), sending and receiving funding (84,96,106,124,148), and utilizing joint programs or providing service (23,66,84,86,148).…”

“…Among health care systems providing services for specific populations-such as the elderly, mental health patients, or HIV/AIDS patientslinks between agencies consist of sending and receiving client referrals (23,86,107,145,148), sending and receiving funding (84,96,106,124,148), and utilizing joint programs or providing service (23,66,84,86,148). Some researchers identified barriers to interorganizational relationships, namely that building relationships takes resources and can limit autonomy (23,96).…”

Mapping U.S. government tobacco control leadership: Networked for success?

“…For example, there have been network studies of: HIV/AIDS service organizations (Kwait, Valente, & Celentano, 2001;Shumate, Fulk, & Monge, 2005;Wright & Shuff, 1995), public and private agencies serving the mentally ill/mental health (Becker et al, 1998;Nakao, Milazzo-Sayre, Rosenstein, & Manderscheid, 1986;Tausig, 1987), community agencies addressing child abuse (Mulroy, 1997), services for the health and social well-being of the elderly (Kaluzny, Zuckerman, & Rabiner, 1998), emergency preparedness and response (Bolland & Wilson, 1994;Harris & Clements, 2007;Kapucu, 2005), tobacco control (Harris, Luke, Burke, & Mueller, 2008;Leischow et al, 2008), and diabetes support (Provan, Harvey, & de Zapien, 2005).…”

Community as a factor in implementing interorganizational partnerships: Issues, constraints, and adaptations

“…Studies of collaborations and partnerships point to conditions that may hinder implementation (Provan and Milward, 1995;Mulroy, 1997;Alter and Hague, 1993;Gray, 1989). One recent study suggested that managers must have a wide range of skills: from those of the collaborative entrepreneur capable of bringing the partners together to those of the collaborative manager capable of ensuring interorganizational sustainabilityskills rarely found in one person (Takahashi and Smutny, 2002).…”