A UT Arlington researcher who spent two years studying how community-based organizations promoted health care in an affluent Texas county found that a lack of coordination and collaboration among agencies hindered their ability to serve the public.

But Karabi Bezboruah, an assistant professor of the School of Urban and Public Affairs, also found that nonprofit organizations and health care agencies could improve health care services by using grassroots efforts to identify problems, collaborating to develop solutions and using community resources to educate the public about such issues.