'Participation is integral': understanding the levers and barriers to the implementation of community participation in primary healthcare: a qualitative study using normalisation process theory.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many international health policies recognise the World Health Organization's (2008) vision that communities should be involved in shaping primary healthcare services. However, researchers continue to debate definitions, models, and operational challenges to community participation. Furthermore, there has been no use of implementation theory to study how community participation is introduced and embedded in primary healthcare in order to generate insights and transferrable lessons for making this so. Using Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) as a conceptual framework, this qualitative study was designed to explore the levers and barriers to the implementation of community participation in primary healthcare as a routine way of working.

Methods

We conducted two quali

SUBMITTER: McEvoy R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6651937 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature