Year: 2010
Funding: NNPHI PHS1 Award
Status: Completed
Overview
This study will measure the association between state Title V maternal and child health (MCH) agency and Indian Health Care System (IHCS) collaboration levels and health status indicators for American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) mothers and their children. To explore this association, five research questions will be addressed: (1) what factors are related to collaboration levels within interorganizational networks of AI/AN MCH organizations and non AI/AN (Title V) MCH agencies? (2) What is the association between collaboration levels and the development of higher-level network structures and MCH health status indicators? (3) What collaboration patterns and network structures within IHCS are related to differences in specific MCH health status indicators? (4) What collaboration patterns and network structures within the Title V system are related to differences in specific MCH health status indicators for the general MCH population? (5) What collaboration strategies between the IHCS and the Title V systems are associated with better MCH health status indicators? The study utilizes a mixed methods multistrand sequential explanatory participant selection model with two phases. The first phase will rate and select states with high cross-sectoral collaboration and measure their association with MCH health status indicators. The second phase will use a case-study design and multiple sources of evidence to describe successful Title V MCH and IHCS agency collaborations. The expected impact will be to identify effective models of collaboration and a set of best practices associated with those models.
Presentations
- Collaboration Among Tribal and State MCH Organizations (CATSO) Project (National Indian Health Board (NIHB) 29th Annual Consumer Conference September 2012)
- Collaboration and Interorganizational Relationships between AI/AN and non-AI/AN MCH Agencies (AcademyHealth PHSR SIG June 2012)
- Collaboration Among Tribal and State Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Organizations: Phase I (Keeneland Conference April 2012)
- Interagency Collaboration Between State Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Agencies and AI/AN Tribal MCH-focused Organizations: The MCH Agencies’ Perspectives (AcademyHealth PHSR SIG June 2011)
Tools & Other Items
- Brochure: Collaboration Among Tribal and State Maternal and Child (MCH) Organizations (CATSO) Project (University of Alabama Birmingham Summer 2012)
Contacts
Beverly A Mulvihill & Martha Wingate
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health