What leadership role should University Medical Centers take in regional primary prevention networks? An interdisciplinary, multi-method analysis of a crowded stakeholder environment.

ABSTRACT: Advancing public health through prevention necessitates collaboration among public, private, and community actors. Only together can these different actors amass the resources, knowledge, and community outreach required to promote health. Recent studies have suggested that university medical centres (UMCs) can play a key role in regional prevention networks, given their capacity to initiate, coordinate, drive, and monitor large partnerships. Yet, the literature often refers to prevention activities in general, leaving underexplored what UMCs can add to primary, universal prevention networks specifically. Moreover, UMCs operate in a crowded field of other organizations with extensive experience in primary prevention, who will already have an idea about what role UMCs should play in the netw

SUBMITTER: Kuiper M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11238967 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature