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- Title
Strengthening community support, resilience programmes and interventions in infectious diseases of poverty.
- Authors
Tambo, Ernest; Ngogang, Jeanne Y.; Xiao Ning; Zhou Xiao-Nong
- Abstract
Background: There is an urgent need to promote innovative partnerships, community leadership and commitment toward strengthening coherent and sustainable community support, resilience programmes, engagement and social mobilization for resiliency. Aims: This paper aims to strengthen coherent, scalable and sustainable community participation, resilience policies and innovative programmes to accelerate elimination and eradication of infectious diseases of poverty. Methods: An unstructured and retrospective review approach was used to determine and to define full papers, reviewed publications, and grey literature on the topics of community resilience, infectious diseases of poverty elimination and eradication, and the global health security agenda. Results: Little is documented on individual and community responsibility cooperation in elimination of infectious diseases of poverty through surveillance and resilience, eradication programmes and interventions. Hence, it is essential to develop joint ownership of community infectious diseases, or emerging outbreaks projects, that can play an important role in research and policy decisions, and advance new cultural and psychobehavioural public health directions. Such an enabling environment is imperative to improve accessibility and availability to essential medical and pharmaceutical commodities in the supply chain management. Conclusions: It is essential to strengthen effective community-based access to drugs and vaccine coverage and effectiveness procurement systems. This is required to improve access to and uptake of care service delivery and management, monitoring and evaluation of integrated and cost-effective programmes, Sustainable Development Goals, and upholding global health security.
- Subjects
PREVENTION of communicable diseases; SOCIAL support; COMMUNITIES; RETROSPECTIVE studies; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience
- Publication
Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2018, Vol 24, Issue 6, p598
- ISSN
1020-3397
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26719/2018.24.6.598