Moving from formative research to co-creation of interventions: insights from a community health system project in Mozambique, Nepal and Peru.

ABSTRACT: Different methodological approaches for implementation research in global health focusing on how interventions are developed, implemented and evaluated are needed. In this paper, we detail the approach developed and implemented in the COmmunity HEalth System InnovatiON (COHESION) Project, a global health project aimed at strengthening health systems in Mozambique, Nepal and Peru. This project developed innovative formative research at policy, health system and community levels to gain a comprehensive understanding of the barriers, enablers, needs and lessons for the management of chronic disease using non-communicable and neglected tropical diseases as tracer conditions. After formative research, COHESION adopted a co-creation approach in the planning of interventions. The approach include

SUBMITTER: Beran D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6254743 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature