A Community Health Services Partnership for Population Health Improvement on Pain

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The Partnership Approach is a community health development strategy that can be applied as a process for organizing and facilitation of new health networks and partnerships aimed at improving population health at the community level. The paper "Relieving Pain in St. Joseph, Missouri: A Health Services Partnership for Changing the Way Pain is Perceived, Judged and Treated" is another example of its application for improving access, health services and health literacy for individuals seeking pain care. The hallmark of this example is the adoption of the bio-psychosocial model of pain care and health literacy education.

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