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Partnerships: survey respondents’ perceptions of inter-professional collaboration to address alcohol-related harms in England.
- Source :
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Critical Public Health . Mar2013, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p62-76. 15p. 4 Charts, 3 Graphs, 1 Map. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Tackling alcohol-related harms crosses agency and professional boundaries, requiring collaboration between health, criminal justice, education and social welfare institutions. It is a key component of most multi-component programmes in the United States, Australia and Europe. Partnership working, already embedded in service delivery structures, is a core mechanism for delivery of the new UK Government Alcohol Strategy. This article reports findings from a study of alcohol partnerships across England. The findings are based on a mix of open discussion interviews with key informants and on semi-structured telephone interviews with 90 professionals with roles in local alcohol partnerships. Interviewees reported the challenges of working within a complex network of interlinked partnerships, often within hierarchies under an umbrella partnership, some of them having a formal duty of partnership. The new alcohol strategy has emerged at a time of extensive reorganisation within health, social care and criminal justice structures. Further development of a partnership model for policy implementation would benefit from consideration of the incompatibility arising from required collaboration and from tensions between institutional and professional cultures. A clearer analysis of which aspects of partnership working provide ‘added value’ is needed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09581596
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Critical Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 85924409
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2012.724770