Public health partnership grows over time in reaction to organizational as well as environmental changes (Novick, Morrow, & Mays, 2008). The life cycle of public health partnerships is described below:

 

Adoption of initial alliance

 

Evaluation

Processes and results

Termination

Goals accomplished

Insufficient progress

Limitation of resources

 

Expansion

Intensity and scope activities increase

Increase of type and numbers of partners

Maintenance

Alliance activities’ status quo sustenance

Migration

Redirection of efforts of alliance at new issues

Formalization

Alliance structure transformation for the improvement of processes and results

 

 

Source: Novick, Morrow, & Mays, (2008).

Collaborative partnerships offer healthy communities’ capacity and address community health upgrading planning and action, which impact on population health effects. Also, it supports and builds healthy communities. Furthermore, it identifies, implements, and evaluates plans to tackle infrastructure and health concerns at the local and state levels (Novick, Morrow, & Mays, 2008). Reasons that lead to the termination of partnerships are

Death of a partner,
Partner resignation,
Mentally or physically incapacitated partner,
Retirement of a partner,
Expulsion by members,
Bankruptcy,
Agreement by partners to dissolve the partnership

(Novick, Morrow, & Mays, 2008)

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