Reimagining malaria: five reasons to strengthen community engagement in the lead up to malaria elimination

Malaria Journal

Commentary

Catherine Smith¹  Maxine Whittaker² 

[1] Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;University of Queensland School of Public Health, Herston, QLD, Australia;

关键词: Community engagement;    Community participation;    Collaboration;    Malaria elimination;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12936-015-0931-9

 received in 2015-07-05, accepted in 2015-10-02,  发布年份 2015

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© Whittaker and Smith. 2015