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Synergies, strengths and challenges: findings on community capability from a systematic health systems research literature review

Future Health Systems

George AS, Scott K, Mehra V and Sriram V (2016) Synergies, strengths and challenges: findings on community capability from a systematic health systems research literature review, BMC Health Services Research, 16:1860, DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1860-1

Community capability is the combined influence of a community’s social systems and collective resources that can address community problems and broaden community opportunities. We frame it as consisting of three domains that together support community empowerment: what communities have; how communities act; and for whom communities act. We sought to further understand these domains through a secondary analysis of a previous systematic review on community participation in health systems interventions in low and middle income countries (LMICs).

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categories 2016, hsr, Health systems research, Journal Article, Open access, UCC
tags Asha George, Kerry Scott, Vrinda Mehra, Veena Sriram

Community Participation in Health Systems Research: A Systematic Review

Future Health Systems

George AS, Mehra V, Scott K, Sriram V (2015) Community Participation in Health Systems Research: A Systematic Review Assessing the State of Research, the Nature of Interventions Involved and the Features of Engagement with Communities. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0141091. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141091

Community participation is a major principle of people centered health systems, with considerable research highlighting its intrinsic value and strategic importance. Existing reviews largely focus on the effectiveness of community participation with less attention to how community participation is supported in health systems intervention research.

This systematic review explores the extent, nature and quality of community participation in health systems intervention research in low- and middle-income countries.

It concludes that despite positive examples, community participation in health systems interventions was variable, with few being truly community directed. Future research should more thoroughly engage with community participation theory, recognize the power relations inherent in community participation, and be more realistic as to how much communities can participate and cognisant of who decides that.

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categories 2015, Article, Community, Open access, Systematic review, JHSPH, Health systems research, hsr, hspr, Journal Article, Featured
tags Asha George, Vrinda Mehra, Kerry Scott, Veena Sriram