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Engaging communities as partners in health crisis response: a realist-informed scoping review for research and policy.

Mateus Kambale SahaniHarro MaatDina BalabanovaMirkuzie WoldiePaul Richardsnull nullSusannah Mayhew
Published in: Health research policy and systems (2024)
Our analysis confirms the complexity of successful community engagement and the need for strategies that help to deal with this complexity to achieve good health outcomes. Further primary research is needed to answer questions of how and why specific mechanisms, in particular contexts, can lead to positive outcomes, including what works and what does not work and how to measure these processes.
Keyphrases
  • public health
  • healthcare
  • mental health
  • social media
  • health information
  • hiv testing
  • metabolic syndrome
  • adipose tissue
  • men who have sex with men
  • hepatitis c virus
  • insulin resistance