Building Public-Private Partnerships: State Progress Briefs
Friday, June 22, 2012
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Purchasers of health insurance are important players in ensuring that
tobacco-users have access to evidence-based treatment services. At the same
time, public health professionals can play a significant role in helping
insurers provide those services while also helping to sustain the state’s
quitline.
For the past 7 months, nine states have been participating in
the NAQC initiative to advance the sustainability of state quitlines through the
formation of partnerships. The initiative has provided states with foundational
information through the 3-part webinar series "Building Public-private
Partnerships,” monthly facilitated discussion groups and technical
assistance. Currently, states are very active in conducting state assessments to
better understand the current tobacco cessation coverage among large health
plans and employers and indentifying key stakeholders. Once the assessments have
been completed, they will be well positioned to develop and implement an action
plan in collaboration with private and public stakeholders.
While the
states are in the infancy stage of partnership development, their experiences
are rich and diverse. If you are interested in learning more about each of the
state’s efforts, state briefs have been developed and posted to the Public-Private Partnership initiative webpage. The briefs
provide information regarding each state’s goals for increasing quitline
sustainability, existing public-private and public-public partnerships, as well
as quitline services and background information.
If you are interested in
advancing cost –sharing partnerships in your state, please contact Deb
Osborne, Manager of Public-private Partnerships at dosborne@naquitline.org.
Sincerely,
Deb
Osborne, MPH
Manager of Public-private Partnerships
North
American Quitline Consortium
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