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The correct answer is False. While inter-professional teams are considered fundamental to the success of a collaborative initiative, community engagement is key with the goal to involve the client in decision making related to their health issue. Also, non professionals, such as lay or peer support and administrative staff are also important to consider.

The correct answer is true. The collaborative network needs to be sustained overtime, likely through incentives. Through this process trust builds and what is done through the shared service can expand.

Working in silos is a major challenge. This can be associated with turf protection, bureaucratic structures that limit risk taking and out-of-box thinking, dominance of medical-centred care, and lack of incentives for the collaboration across sectors, particularly for primary care professionals.

The right answer is false. Collaborative work plans that incorporate a mix of population and individual approaches can work synergistically to address local community health needs, particularly with marginalized, priority, or underserved populations.