A scoping review of current practices on community engagement in rural East Africa: Recommendations for snakebite envenoming.

ABSTRACT: Community empowerment and engagement is one of the four strategic aims highlighted in the WHO strategy to prevent and control snakebite envenoming. Inappropriate health-seeking behaviours contribute to adverse outcomes, and community engagement is key in driving behavioural change. WHO has highlighted East Africa as a geographical area of concern for snakebite envenoming. The overall aim of the project is to develop a community engagement toolkit for snakebite envenoming and other NTDs. The objective of this scoping review was to identify current practices in recent community engagement in rural East Africa; the applicability of these results to snakebite envenoming are discussed. PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO and Google Scholar were searched from 1 January 2017 to

SUBMITTER: Moos B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8334718 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature