Collaboration between Actors
The complexity of re-imagining a system comes in part from interdisciplinarity, since a decentralization requires actors and/or stakeholders, that do not necessarily talked to each other, to work together. The inclusion of a cooperative approach within the health care system would be complex, but extremely beneficial. So how do we juggle between the government, the municipality or the boroughs, and the co-operative at the administrative level?
We asked this complex question to the Professor Emeritus André-Pierre Contandriopoulos from the School of Public Health, at the University of Montréal.
‘’ Nowadays, we realize that neither the state nor the private sector alone can respond to health care issues. It is clear that the private sector just doesn't work, and public/private partnerships generally don't work either while the state alone doesn't always have the means or the capacity to do so... So we need the huge space of cooperative, social economy, voluntary, semi-voluntary groups working for a public good ... and it’s the regulation of that common space, between the state, the municipality and the social field, like a not-for-profit organization that would enable us to tackle this issue sustainably. ‘’
The complexity of re-imagining a system comes in part from interdisciplinarity, since a decentralization requires actors and/or stakeholders, that do not necessarily talked to each other, to work together. The inclusion of a cooperative approach within the health care system would be complex, but extremely beneficial. So how do we juggle between the government, the municipality or the boroughs, and the co-operative at the administrative level?
We asked this complex question to the Professor Emeritus André-Pierre Contandriopoulos from the School of Public Health, at the University of Montréal.
‘’ Nowadays, we realize that neither the state nor the private sector alone can respond to health care issues. It is clear that the private sector just doesn't work, and public/private partnerships generally don't work either while the state alone doesn't always have the means or the capacity to do so... So we need the huge space of cooperative, social economy, voluntary, semi-voluntary groups working for a public good ... and it’s the regulation of that common space, between the state, the municipality and the social field, like a not-for-profit organization that would enable us to tackle this issue sustainably. ‘’
- André-Pierre Contandriopoulos