Factors facilitating and inhibiting cross-sector collaborations in rural communities
| Facilitating factors | Impact |
| Health-promoting context | Promotes shared value and consciousness; facilitates community-wide dialogue, activism and collaboration |
| Seed initiative | Motivates people; mobilises collective actions; establishes structures that last beyond the original initiative |
| Hospital vision | Expands hospital’s role; transforms mindsets; creates a hub for improving health and well-being; provides resources |
| Cross-sector leadership and governance | Creates and updates shared aims; coordinates resources and actions; reduces redundancy and competition; facilitates communication and trust |
| Inhibiting factors | Impact |
| Different institutional logics | Disconnects potential collaborators with different institutional norms and practices; leads to missed collaboration opportunities; creates redundancy and competition |
| Financial and human resources constraints | Limits support for establishing programmes and facilities; hinders provision of certain services and participation in joint efforts; hinders volunteering |
| Geographic dispersion | Obstructs efforts to mobilise potential collaborators and spread progress beyond the core communities; upholds geographic disparities |