Wellness trusts, modeled after financial trusts support primary health prevention in community settings, provide an innovative opportunity for better community-clinical linkages, collaboration, and impact.
It proved particularly effective in developing linkages, collaborations and skills.
Cooke et.al, 2008, found a team-based approach effective in developing linkages, collaborations and skills [ 2].
This evaluation suggests that the DRT approach is effective in promoting change and development across most RCB domains, and is particularly strong in developing linkages, collaborations and skills.
But beyond this, integrative care might be more accurately defined as "linkage" or "collaboration".
A defined and harmonious linkage and collaboration will not only avoid duplication and redundancy, but also enhance and complement the function and output quality of each laboratory.
The SEER Medicare data linkage, a collaboration of the National Cancer Institute and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was created by linking two large population-based data sources: the SEER cancer registry system and the Medicare enrolment and claim files.
Availability of the grant, coupled with linkages and collaboration with colleagues from developed countries, enabled the project to widen the scope of what can be done in a resource-limited setting such as ours.
It is possible, for example, that development of linkages and collaborations could impact on sustainability.
This was not surprising, as linkages and collaborations were inherent in the DRT model, and included those between researchers and universities, clinicians and researchers, and between practitioner groups.
