Resilience and fragmentation in healthcare coalitions: The link between resource contributions and centrality in health-related interorganizational networks.

ABSTRACT: Interorganizational coalitions or collaboratives in healthcare are essential to address the health challenges of local communities, particularly during crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic. However, few studies use large-scale data to systematically assess the network structure of these collaboratives and understand their potential to be resilient or fragment in the face of structural changes. This paper analyzes data collected in 2009-2017 about 817 organizations (nodes) in 42 healthcare collaboratives (networks) throughout Florida, the third-largest U.S. state by population, including information about interorganizational ties and organizations' resource contributions to their coalitions. Social network methods are used to characterize the resilience of these collaboratives, including id

SUBMITTER: Bohnett E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9420007 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature