Theorizing community health governance for strengthening primary healthcare in LMICs.

ABSTRACT: In recent years, community health governance structures have been established in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs) as part of decentralization policies aimed at strengthening primary healthcare systems. So far, most studies on these local structures either focus on measuring their impact on health outcome or on identifying the factors that affect their performance. In this paper we offer an alternative contribution that draws on a sociological interpretation of community health governance to improve understanding of how the government's policy vision and instrumentation translate to interactions that take place within local spaces at field level. We study 13 Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNCs) in Karnataka, India, from 2016 to 2018 focusing on sanitation,

SUBMITTER: Madon S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9189612 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature