Interorganizational Relationships Among HIV/AIDS Service Organizations in Baltimore: A Network Analysis

Abstract

A wide variety of organizations has become involved in providing medical and social services to people living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS

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).…”

“…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).…”

Social Networks, Risk-Potential Networks, Health, and Disease

“…Kwait et al 15 present a useful network analysis of links among organizations that provide medical and social services to persons living with HIV in Baltimore, Maryland. Most of the linkages among these organizations are related to client referrals or to the sharing of information about shared clients.…”