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Alicea-Alvarez, N., Reeves, K., Lucas, M., Huang, D., Ortiz, M., Burroughs, T., Lucas, M. S. (2016). Impacting health disparities in urban communities: Preparing future healthcare providers for “Neighborhood-Engaged Care” through a community engagement course intervention. Journal of Urban Health, 93(4), 732–743.
The healthcare delivery system is geared to provide access to healthcare; however, in low-income communities, residents have limited access due to the inability to travel or pay for healthcare services. Alicea-Alvarez et al. describe a collaborative program to engage communities to reduce health disparities.

Jacobson, P. D., & Parmet, W. E. (2018). Public health and health care: Integration, disintegration, or eclipse. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 46(4), 940–951.
Jacobson and Parmet examine the two systems, public health and healthcare to assess in the post-ACA era whether the coordination of care across the two systems has improved.

Shahbazi, M., Kumar, M., Mawson, A., Lavigine, D. A., & Dove, C. (2018). Effectiveness of community health workers in healthcare delivery: Evidence from the field. Journal of Health Disparities Research & Practice, 11(2), 62–86.
The authors researched the outcomes of a newly-established project using community health workers to address readmissions and healthcare costs.

Valaitis, R., Meagher-Stewart, D., Martin-Misener, R., Wong, S. T., MacDonald, M., & O’Mara, L. (2018). Organizational factors influencing successful primary care and public health collaboration. BMC Health Services Research, 18(1), 420-438.
Valaitis et al. examined the barriers that inhibiting the collaboration between public health clinics and primary care clinics.

Yorkery, B. (2017). Accountable care communities: Moving from health care delivery systems to systems of health. North Carolina Medical Journal, 78(4), 242–244. https://doi-org.proxy1.ncu.edu/10.18043/ncm.78.4.242.
Yorkery analyzed the link between socio-behavioral environmental conditions of patients as compared to the healthcare services and changes that occur in a new type of healthcare delivery system.