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Factors facilitating and constraining the scaling up of an evidence-based strategy of community-based primary care: management perspectives from northern Ghana.
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Related Articles Factors facilitating and constraining the scaling up of an evidence-based strategy of community-based primary care: management perspectives from northern Ghana.
Glob Public Health. 2015;10(3):366-78
Authors: Krumholz AR, Stone AE, Dalaba MA, Phillips JF, Adongo PB
Abstract
From 1994 to 2003, the government of Ghana investigated the child survival and fertility impacts of community-based primary care nurses and volunteer mobilisation efforts. This study, known as the Navrongo Project, demonstrated improved health outcomes and was scaled-up as the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Initiative. Studies suggest that scaled-up CHPS services have not fully replicated the impact of the Project. This study investigates implementation challenges that could explain this atrophy by assembling the perspectives of health care managers that have experience with both the Project and CHPS. Data from in-depth interviews of health managers are analysed using deductive content analysis. Respondents exhibited a consistent vision of doorstep services with regard to the Project and CHPS. They shared the perspective that while scale-up has progressed slowly, it has expanded the range of services provided. Respondents felt, however, that the original emphasis on community involvement has atrophied with scale-up and that current operations are managed less rigorously than during the Project. Thus, while the expanded scope of CHPS has increased access to health care, the original focus on community engagement has faded. The original Project leadership strategy merits review for ways to integrate leadership development into scale-up activities.PMID: 25436901 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
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