Community Mobilisation for Human Sample Collection in Sensitive Communities: Experiences from Granular Mapping of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ekiti State, South West, Nigeria [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseCommunity mobilisation is a vital process for raising awareness and increasing participation in healthcare interventions, research, and programmes that require human sample collection and mass management.
Temitope Agbana +13 more
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Evidence to impact: A community knowledge mobilisation evaluation framework [PDF]
Gateways, 2017 Many strategies guide knowledge-sharing to enhance uptake of evidence-based programs in practice, though few have been designed specifically for community settings.
S. Kathleen Worton +4 more
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Community mobilisation approaches to preventing and reducing adolescent multiple risk behaviour: a realist review protocol [PDF]
Systematic Reviews, 2021 Background Adolescent multiple risk behaviour (MRB) continues to be a global health issue. Most interventions have focused on the proximal causes of adolescent MRB such as peer or family influence, rather than targeting the wider environmental or ...
Tinner Laura +2 more
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Does community mobilisation improve awareness, approval and uptake of family planning methods among women of reproductive age in Ebonyi State Nigeria? Experience from a quasi-experimental study [PDF]
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2019 INTRODUCTION: Family planning programmes have helped in increasing the prevalence of contraceptive use and reducing total fertility rate in developing countries from six to three births per woman.
Ifeyinwa Chizoba Akamike +3 more
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Breathing life into theory: Illustrations of community-based research – Hallmarks, functions and phases [PDF]
Gateways, 2014 There is a growing interest in the area of research that engages communities. Increasingly, this community-based research (CBR) approach to research is being seen as a catalyst for social innovation, for public policy improvements, for solving complex ...
Joanna Ochocka, Rich Janzen
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‘SASA! is the medicine that treats violence’. Qualitative findings on how a community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women created change in Kampala, Uganda [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2014 Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) violates women's human rights and is a serious public health concern. Historically strategies to prevent IPV have focussed on individuals and their relationships without addressing the context under which IPV ...
Nambusi Kyegombe +7 more
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Processes and challenges of community mobilisation for latrine promotion under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan in rural Odisha, India [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2017 Background Despite efforts to eradicate it, open defecation remains widely practiced in India, especially in rural areas. Between 2013 and 2014, 50 villages in one district of Odisha, India, received a sanitation programme under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan
Parimita Routray +4 more
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Community theatre as instrument for community sensitisation and mobilisation
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2016 Environmental protection, sustainable economic development and good governance are important issues of the century, and theatre can play an important role in addressing them.
Ekpe Inyang
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Community mobilisation approaches to preventing adolescent multiple risk behaviour: a realist review [PDF]
Systematic ReviewsBackground Adolescent multiple risk behaviour (MRB) is a global health issue. Most interventions have focused on the proximal causes of adolescent MRB such as peer or family influence, with systematic reviews reporting mixed evidence of effectiveness ...
Laura Tinner +3 more
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Optimising knowledge mobilisation for mental health research in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of the state of knowledge and directions for future research [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental HealthOptimising knowledge mobilisation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) could prove beneficial for improving mental health care, alleviating the global burden of high prevalence mental health problems and reducing inequalities. This review aimed to
Cintia Faija +9 more
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