Danielle M. Varda

TL;DR: A systematic review of community-level characteristics such as social capital found a lack of congruence in how social capital was measured and interpreted and a general inconsistency in findings, which made it difficult to draw firm conclusions about the effects of social capital on health care access.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the relevant theory and research regarding how crises cause change in social networks, and how those changes may or may not facilitate recovery, as a function of the kinds of changes that occur.

TL;DR: Overall, it is found that public affairs has a long and rich history of research in collaborations that offers unique organizational theory and management tools to public health practitioners.

TL;DR: This article uses network theory and social network analysis to outline the core dimensions of connectivity used to measure progress in public health collaboratives and articulate how these measures fit into the overall process of measuring progress inPublic health collaborative.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a theory of collaborative policy networks that examines not only the stakeholder composition of a group or the partnerships between any two stakeholders but also the way these stakeholders are embedded in various degrees of institutionalized structure and the discursive tendencies of exchange among them that leads to policy initiative, implementation, evaluation, and possibly termination.