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A framework and methodology for differentiating community intervention forms in global health

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Community interventions are critical components of strategies to improve global health. However, the proliferation of forms of community intervention and their subsequent misclassification has led to the comparison and equation of dissimilar forms and thus confusion about which forms are most effective, which should be adopted and how to implement them in practice. This article presents a framework and methodology that provides practitioners and researchers in global health with a means of rigorously and consistently differentiating between community intervention approaches. The framework is developed through a review of the literature and captures and describes five different forms of community intervention that can be differentiated on the basis of nine practice variables. A methodology for applying the framework in practice is subsequently presented and preliminarily tested on community mother and child health interventions. The framework and methodology, with a few refinements, have the potential to greatly assist practitioners and researchers in clearly differentiating between different forms of community health interventions.

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Series Title

Community Development Journal

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Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications., 2015

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Language

English

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0010-3802

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Volume 50, Number 2 April 2015, pages 229-243

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community interventions
Researchers
The framework is developed
The framework and methodology

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