Differential impact of hospital and community factors on breadth and depth of hospital population health partnerships.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim was to identify hospital and county characteristics associated with variation in breadth and depth of hospital partnerships with a broad range of organizations to improve population health.

Data sources

The American Hospital Association Annual Survey provided data on hospital partnerships to improve population health for the years 2017-2019.

Design

The study adopts the dimensional publicness theory and social capital framework to examine hospital and county characteristics that facilitate hospital population health partnerships. The two dependent variables were number of local community organizations that hospitals partner with (breadth) and level of engagement with the partners (depth) to improve population health. The independent variables include

SUBMITTER: Puro N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10796292 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature