Using Information and Communication Technologies to Engage Citizens in Health System Governance in Burkina Faso: Protocol for Action Research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health systems are complex systems involving a vast range of actors. In West Africa, they are often not accessible or responsive. Burkina Faso has widely expressed, in its public health policy, the need to improve both access to quality care and health system responsiveness. There is also a strong wish to give more voice to citizens. To support Burkinabè institutions in achieving these goals, we have developed an action research (AR) protocol.

Objective

This paper presents the protocol that will address citizens' participation in health policies and their empowerment through the expression of opinions, for accountability, as well as the strengthening of the health system using information and communication technologies (ICTs).

Methods

Our approach will cons

SUBMITTER: Biau S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8663653 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature