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Do community scorecards improve utilisation of health services in community clinics: experience from a rural area of Bangladesh

Future Health Systems

Hanifi, S.M.A., Hossain, A., Chowdhury, A.H. et al. (2020) Do community scorecards improve utilisation of health services in community clinics: experience from a rural area of Bangladesh, Int J Equity Health 19, 149, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01266-5

The government of Bangladesh initiated community clinics (CC) to extend the reach of public health services and these facilities were planned to be run through community participation. However, utilisation of CC services is still very low. Evidence indicates community score card is an effective tool to increase utilisation of services from health facility through regular interface meeting between service providers and beneficiary. We investigated whether community scorecards (CSC) improve utilisation of health services provided by CCs in rural area of Bangladesh.

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categories 2020, Bangladesh, Community, icddrb, Journal Article, Open access
tags Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Aazia Hossain, Asiful Haidar Chowdhury, Shahidul Hoque, Mohammed Abdus Selim, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Abbas Bhuiya

Feasibility, Acceptability and Initial Outcome Of Implementing Community Scorecard To Monitor Community Level Public Health Facilities: Experience From Rural Bangladesh

Future Health Systems

Mahmood, S.S., Rasheed, S., Chowdhury, A.H. et al. (2020) Feasibility, acceptability and initial outcome of implementing community scorecard to monitor community level public health facilities: experience from rural Bangladesh, Int J Equity Health 19, 155, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01265-6

Engaging communities in health facility management and monitoring is an effective strategy to increase health system responsiveness. Many developing countries have used community scorecard (CSC) to encourage community participation in health. However, the use of CSC in health in Bangladesh has been limited. In 2017, icddr,b initiated a CSC process to improve health service delivery at the community clinics (CC) providing primary healthcare in rural Bangladesh. The current study presents learnings around feasibility, acceptability, initial outcome and challenges of implementing CSC at community clinics.

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categories 2020, Bangladesh, Community, icddrb, Journal Article, Open access
tags Shehrin Shaila Mahmood, Sabrina Rasheed, Asiful Haidar Chowdhury, Aazia Hossain, Mohammed Abdus Selim, Shahidul Hoque, Abbas Bhuiya