Micro-regional planning: evidence-based community buy-in for health development in five of Mexico's poorest rural districts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community participation was a core tenet of Primary Health Care as articulated in the 1970s. How this could be generated and maintained was less clear. This historical article describes development of protocols for evidence-based community mobilisation in five local administrative units (municipios) in the Mexican state of Guerrero between 1992 and 1995.

Methods

A sample of five to eight sentinel sites represented each of the most impoverished municipalities of the poorest five of the state's seven regions. A 1992 baseline survey of diarrhoea and its actionable determinants provided the substrate for discussion with local planners and communities. Municipal planners used different strategies to promote participation. In one municipality, new health committees took

SUBMITTER: Arrizon AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3332561 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature