intersectoral collaboration

(ĭn-tĕr-sĕk′tĕr-ĭl) [″ + sector]

Cooperation among different social groups that enables them to solve common problems, e.g., a public health crisis.

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viii) Mechanisms will be developed for intersectoral collaboration for mental health, led by the health sector and engaging a range of other sectors.

Following on from the Life Esidimeni incident--access to care for people living with severe mental disability, according to national policy

Promote intersectoral collaboration at national, regional, and international levels; engage civil society, unions, and other health worker organizations and the private sector; and align international cooperation to support investments in the health workforce, as part of national health and education strategies and plans.

Want to create jobs and drive economic growth? Invest in nursing and global health workforce

These activities include identifying priority issues that affect different sectors at different levels, developing monitoring systems that incorporate HiAP/SDG-sensitive indicators, improving the evidence base for approaches to intersectoral collaboration, mapping and developing thematic websites, training HiAP and SDG policy decision-makers, and providing activities designed to train trainers.

Health in all policies in the partnership for sustainable development/La salud en todas las poifticas en la alianza en pro del desarrollo sostenible

In particular, it talks about the importance for systems policies, public health policies and policies in other sectors that affect health, to support universal coverage, effective service delivery (particularly primary care), health promotion, illness prevention and intersectoral collaboration.

Primary health ethos missing from strategy: the Government has missed an opportunity to put primary health care at the heart of its revised health strategy

Indeed, in a complementary comment, Alleyne made an important distinction between multisectoral and intersectoral collaboration in relation to our paper.

Learning valuable perspectives on improving the world's health through the post-2015 development agenda: A response to recent commentaries

the challenges of intersectoral collaboration within and across governments and civil society organizations; (6,7)

The reallocation challenge: containing Canadian medical care spending to invest in the social determinants of health

It underscored the need for a change in mind-set from the traditional preoccupation with combining the use of only a few limited vector control methods, such as LLINs and IRS, to a comprehensive strategy with key elements that include integration of chemical and nonchemical methods of vector control and their further integration with other aspects of a country's health-care system, evidence-based decision making, intersectoral collaboration, advocacy and social mobilization, and capacity building.

An assessment of participatory integrated vector management for malaria control in Kenya

Indeed, as most of the socio-economic conditions in which people are born, live and work, commonly referred as the social determinants of health, are outside the health sector realm, intersectoral collaboration emerges as the strategy of choice to act on those determinants (3).

A scoping review of definitions and frameworks of intersectoral action/ Revisao de ambito das definicoes e modelos conceituais de acoes intersetoriais

On the one hand governments need new competencies to tap the potential within intersectoral collaboration such as intermediary agencies.

Governance Systemic Performance Constraints

Approaches like Health in All Policies (HiAP) conceptualize the inclusion of SDH through intersectoral collaboration (Scott-Samuel, 2005).

The role of health impact assessment in advancing sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean

There is a need for intersectoral collaboration, nationwide approach, and responsibility of local authorities in the issue of public health strengthening.

Issues of public health discussed in Kyrgyzstan

Examples of cases in psychiatry where intersectoral collaboration is central include: community-based residential and psycho-social rehabilitation facilities and services; forensic psychiatry; substance abuse and addiction; [31,32] child and adolescent psychiatry, and geriatric psychiatry.

Contributions from the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP) to the National Mental Health Action Plan