Reimagining malaria: five reasons to strengthen community engagement in the lead up to malaria elimination
Whittaker, Maxine, and Smith, Catherine (2015) Reimagining malaria: five reasons to strengthen community engagement in the lead up to malaria elimination. Malaria Journal, 14. pp. 419-425.
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Abstract
Although community engagement has been recognized as an important element of public health since the Alma Ata declaration, in practice community engagement has played a marginal role within malaria control programmes. As more countries move toward elimination, malaria elimination programmes will need to reimagine malaria in a number of ways. An important element of this will be to re-conceptualize and better strategize community engagement, which will become increasingly important for programme success as countries near elimination. This commentary intends to begin a conversation on re-imagining community engagement in an elimination setting, by outlining five ways that community engagement should be strengthened and re-strategized in the lead up to malaria elimination.
Item ID: | 43878 |
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Item Type: | Article (Commentary) |
ISSN: | 1475-2875 |
Keywords: | community engagement, community participation, collaboration, malaria elimination |
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Funders: | Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network |
Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2016 02:46 |
FoR Codes: | 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1103 Clinical Sciences > 110309 Infectious Diseases @ 60% 11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1117 Public Health and Health Services > 111708 Health and Community Services @ 40% |
SEO Codes: | 92 HEALTH > 9202 Health and Support Services > 920299 Health and Support Services not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
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