Lessons Learned

• Sustained and stable funding is needed for collaboration between public health and primary care;
• Collaborations can be strengthened with better alignment of funding models and incentives to promote collaboration;
• Pooling and sharing of resources such as deployment of health human resources can enable a collaboration;
• The current fee-for-service system for primary care is a disincentive to collaborate as there is no way to compensate providers for the time that it takes to collaborate;
• Increased financial investment is needed for collaboration, not just reallocation of funds.