Rights and advocacy
Access to and understanding of information on essential health services, such as immunisation, is a pre-requisite of informed and consensual participation by the community of service users. Persistent demographic disparities, for example relating to gender and poverty, among those who utilise health services, are a question of equity and remain a public health challenge.
While providing healthcare information to stakeholders is a necessary form of advocacy, engaging the community and empowering it with the capacity to shape and seek valued services is essential for sustainable change. There is greater emphasis in the available literature about instructing the community than on engaging it in dialogue.
- Building trust in immunization: partnering with religious leaders and groups
- This report, published by UNICEF, highlights the important role that religious leaders and groups can play in promoting immunisation and other public health initiatives. The report provides detailed practical guidance on relationship-building, from conducting an initial assessment to forging alliances.
Recommended reading
- "Neglected" diseases but unrecognised successes: challenges and opportunities for infectious disease control
- ( D.H. Molyneux / The Lancet , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- This article, published in the Lancet, argues that the focus of health policymakers and politicians on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, together with emerging and re-emerging diseases, causes fundi...
- The impact of the national polio immunization campaign on levels and equity in immunization coverage: evidence from rural North India
- ( S. Bonu; M. Rani; T.D. Baker / Communication Initiative , 2003)
- Recommended reading
- This report evaluates the success of a national polio immunisation campaign conducted in northern India during the 1990s. Research showed that while the campaign increased the coverage of the first do...
- Diarrhoea in children: an interface between developing and developed countries
- ( N. Thapar; I.R. Sanderson / The Lancet , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- This review, published in the Lancet, draws attention to the continuing high levels of child mortality and morbidity in the developing world resulting from diarrhoeal illnesses, despite widespread use...
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- Family planning policies should reflect HIV-positive women’s rights for informed reproductive choices
- ( N. Rutenberg;C. Baek / Studies in Family Planning , 2005)
- This article, published in Studies in Family Planning, reviews field experiences of provision of family planning services in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes in ten countr...
- Focus on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria blinding us to the benefits of fighting other diseases
- ( D.H. Molyneux / The Lancet , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- This article, published in the Lancet, argues that the focus of health policymakers and politicians on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, together with emerging and re-emerging diseases, causes fundi...
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