Clinic-Community Partnerships: A Foundation for Providing Community Supports for Diabetes Care and Self-Management
- Carol A. Brownson, MSPH,
- Mary L. O'Toole, PhD,
- Gowri Shetty, MS, MPH,
- Victoria V. Anwuri, MPH and
- Edwin B. Fisher, PhD
Abstract
In Brief
Addressing complex challenges such as diabetes calls for a comprehensive approach in which health care organizations and communities work together for change. This article describes approaches and lessons learned from eight clinic-community demonstration projects funded through the Diabetes Initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Footnotes
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Carol A. Brownson, MSPH, and Mary L. O'Toole, PhD, are deputy directors of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Diabetes Initiative at its National Program Office at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. Gowri Shetty, MS, MPH, previously the evaluation coordinator for the Diabetes Initiative, is a senior epidemiologist in the Tobacco Education and Prevention Program at the Arizona Department of Health Services in Phoenix, and Victoria V. Anwuri, MPH, is the program coordinator. Edwin B. Fisher, PhD, is national program director for the Diabetes Initiative and chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
- American Diabetes Association
