Community Engagement in Support of Moving Toward Universal Health Coverage

Abstract Community engagement describes a complex political process with dynamic negotiation and renegotiation of power and authority between providers and recipients of health care in order to achieve a shared goal of universal health care coverage. Though examples exist of community engagement projects, there is very little guidance on how to implement and embed community engagement as a concerted, integrated, strategic, and sustained component of health systems. Through a series of case studies, this article explores the factors that enable community engagement particularly with a direct impact on health systems.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Health systems and reform

• Publication date

  2019-01-02

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/23288604.2018.1541497PMID 30924744
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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