Soft infrastructure: the critical community-level resources reportedly needed for program success.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The mechanisms typically used to fund health promotion in communities, either as part of an effort to scale-up programs or to support the design of local activities, often pay insufficient attention to the foundational means of enhancing well-being. Only recently have researchers begun to critically 'unpack' how funding processes connect with and activate local community capacities.

Methods

We conducted a thematic analysis of 33 interviews with policy and program administrators in public health and local community workers and volunteers. We invited them to expound on their understandings of resources - specifically, what needs to be in place to make funded programs successful and/or what do communities draw on to make funded programs effective.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Kavanagh SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8889705 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature