Community Participation in Primary Healthcare in the South Sudan Boma Health Initiative: A Document Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community participation is central to primary healthcare, yet there is little evidence of how this works in conflict settings. In 2016, South Sudan's Ministry of Health launched the Boma Health Initiative (BHI) to improve primary care services through community participation.

Methods

We conducted a document analysis to examine how well the BHI policy addressed community participation in its policy formulation. We reviewed other policy documents and published literature to provide background context and supplementary data. We used a deductive thematic analysis that followed Rifkin and colleagues' community participation framework to assess the BHI policy.

Results

The BHI planners included inputs from communities without details on how the needs assessment wa

SUBMITTER: Belaid L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10105198 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature