Participation in primary health care through community-level health committees in Sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health committees are key mechanisms for enabling participation of community members in decision-making on matters related to their health. This paper aims to establish an in-depth understanding of how community members participate in primary health care through health committees in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Methods

We searched peer-reviewed English articles published between 2010 and 2019 in MEDLINE, Popline and CINAHL databases. Articles were eligible if they involved health committees in SSA. Our search yielded 279 articles and 7 duplicates were removed. We further excluded 255 articles following a review of titles and abstracts by two authors. Seventeen abstracts were eligible for full text review. After reviewing the full-text, we further excluded two article

SUBMITTER: Karuga R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8858504 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature