SynthesisJournal of health communication2014
Community engagement to enhance child survival and early development in low- and middle-income countries: an evidence review.
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 115 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Community Engagement in Vaccination Promotion: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Pooled it
- Community engagement processes in low- and middle-income countries health research settings: a systematic review of the literature.BMC health services research · 2023Pooled it
- How and why do women's groups (WGs) improve the quality of maternal and child health (MCH) care? A systematic review of the literature.BMJ open · 2022Pooled it
- Synergies, strengths and challenges: findings on community capability from a systematic health systems research literature review.BMC health services research · 2016Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Caregiver behavior change for child survival and development in low- and middle-income countries: an examination of the evidence.Journal of health communication · 2014Pooled it
- Engaging rural communities in Bangladesh to tackle antimicrobial resistance through the Community Dialogue Approach: a process evaluation protocol for COSTAR project in Cumilla, Bangladesh.Frontiers in public health · 2024Trial
- Utilization of community engagement in social innovation health projects in low-and-middle income countries: A global sequential mixed methods analysis.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Using the Community Perception Tracker (CPT) to inform COVID-19 response in Lebanon and Zimbabwe: a qualitative methods evaluation.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Moving forward together: collaborative strategies in HIV prevention across Africa - a narrative review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Review
- Engaging rural communities in Bangladesh to address antimicrobial resistance via the community dialogue approach: a protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Understanding communication in community engagement for maternal and newborn health programmes in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review.Health policy and planning · 2023Article
- What's in a name? Unpacking 'CommunityBMJ global health · 2023Article
- Health System Considerations for Community-Based Implementation of Automated Respiratory Counters to Identify Childhood Pneumonia in 5 Regions of Ethiopia: A Qualitative Study.International journal of health policy and management · 2023Article
- Community Health Workers. Reinforcement of an Outreach Strategy in Rural Areas Aimed at Improving the Integration of HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria Prevention, Screening and Care Into the Health Systems. "Proxy-Santé" Study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- The influence of community factors in the implementation of community-based interventions to improve antenatal care: a qualitative study based on the IMCHA programme in Tanzania.Reproductive health · 2021Article
- Barriers to the utilization of community-based child and newborn health services in Ethiopia: a scoping review.Health policy and planning · 2021Article
- Article
- Correlates of attendance at community engagement meetings held in advance of bio-behavioral research studies: A longitudinal, sociocentric social network study in rural Uganda.PLoS medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
As part of a broader evidence summit, USAID and UNICEF convened a literature review of effective means to empower communities to achieve behavioral and social changes to accelerate reductions in under-5 mortality and optimize early child development. The authors conducted a systematic review of the effectiveness of community mobilization and participation that led to behavioral change and one or more of the following: child health, survival, and development. The level and nature of community engagement was categorized using two internationally recognized models and only studies where the methods of community participation could be categorized as collaborative or shared leadership were eligible for analysis. The authors identified 34 documents from 18 countries that met the eligibility criteria. Studies with shared leadership typically used a comprehensive community action cycle, whereas studies characterized as collaborative showed clear emphasis on collective action but did not undergo an initial process of community dialogue. The review concluded that programs working collaboratively or achieving shared leadership with a community can lead to behavior change and cost-effective sustained transformation to improve critical health behaviors and reduce poor health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. Overall, community engagement is an understudied component of improving child outcomes.
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