Community engagement : Essential for all community Child Survival programs?

Freeman, Paul

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Community Engagement: Current Evidence of Effectiveness

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Oral

The use of an evidence-based approach to Primary Health Care in developing countries is now firmly established. However, for evidence-based approaches to be most successful for common programs maximizing community engagement is very important. With good community engagement community ownership can become well established and good programs outcomes sustained in the medium to longer term. Recent publications have documented the efficacy of community engagement in producing outstanding program results. This panel will present recent projects that demonstrate the importance of community engagement in producing good results in Primary Health Care projects in developing countries and examine them in the light of these recent publications.

Session Objectives: Identify that community engagement is an important part of all community Child Survival programs Identify that there is clear evidence that the greater the level of community engagement the better program health outcomes are.

Organizer:

Paul Freeman, DR PH. MBBS, MHP(ED) MPH(TH)

Moderator:

Paul Freeman, DR PH. MBBS, MHP(ED) MPH(TH)

10:30am

A realist review of community mobilization for maternal/newborn health programming

Anne Kuhlmann, PhD, MPH

Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)

10:45am

Community Engagement as Delivery Strategy in Bangladesh Maternal Newborn Health

Alan Talens, MD,MPH

Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)