Community mobilization

Interventions to encourage community, individuals, groups (including in schools), or organizations to plan, carry out, and evaluate activities on a participatory and sustained basis to improve their health and other needs. Community mobilization can often also involve use of the following activities:

-participatory learning and action cycles (e.g. women’s groups)

-community dialogue and working with community leaders, religious leaders, health service providers, Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA

-participatory research and assessment

-rapid rural appraisal

-strength based strategies such as positive deviance approaches

-community advocacy activities

-community organized transport schemes

-engaging school children as agents of change

Interventions to increase the use of skilled health personnel on birthing practices and health outcomes (Vieira et al., 2012)

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Counselling and community mobilization for birth preparedness and complication readiness and mortality and care behaviours (Soubeiga et al., 2014)

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Communicating risk and promoting disease mitigation measures in epidemics and emerging disease settings (Schiavo et al., 2014)

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Interventions to improve routine immunization programs and vaccination rates (Ryman et al., 2008)

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Participatory learning on health in through women's groups in low-resource settings (Prost et al., 2013)

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Cost-effectiveness of strategies to improve the utilization and provision of maternal and newborn health care (Mangham-Jefferies et al., 2014)

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Birth preparedness and complication readiness interventions and birth with a skilled attendant (Miltenburg et al., 2015)

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Health system, policy, communication and financial interventions for maternal and child health (Mbuagbaw et al., 2015)

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Lay health workers for maternal and child health (Lewin et al., 2010)

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Linking families and facilities for care at birth to avert intrapartum-related deaths (Lee et al., 2009)

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