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Kaiser Permanente, an integrated health care delivery system in the USA, takes a “whole systems” approach to the chronic disease of obesity that begins with efforts to prevent it by modifying the environment in communities and schools. Aggressive case-finding and substantial investment in intensive lifestyle modification programs target individuals at high risk of diabetes and other weight-related...
Broad-based community partnerships are seen as an effective way of addressing many community, health issues, but the partnership approach has had relatively limited success in producing measurable improvements in long-term health outcomes. One potential reason, among many, for this lack of success is a mismatch between the goals of the partnership, and its structure/membership. This article reports...
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